Days of Russian as a foreign language at St Petersburg University in 2023

Programme

25 September 2023

10.30am — 11am Grand opening of the Days of Russian as a foreign language at St Petersburg University

11am — 1pm Round table ‘Emotive component of the learning process of the Russian as a foreign language: spectrum and functions of academic emotions’. Moderator: Elena Seliverstova, Professor in the Department of Russian for the Humanities and Natural Sciences at St Petersburg University

1pm —1.30pm Break

1.30pm — 2.30 pm Methodological workshop ‘The role of emotions in learning: methodological aspect’. Speaker: Andrei Shatilov, Associate Professor in the Department of Russian for the Humanities and Natural Sciences at St Petersburg University

Topics for discussion:

• Motives as a source of interest in the subject
• Dynamics of motive formation: ups and downs
• Emotions as a necessary part (component?) of the cognition process
• Emotional intelligence and its impact on learning effectiveness

26 September 2023

2pm — 3.30pm Presentation of projects

Training videos on Russian as a foreign language

A joint project of lecturers and students at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University

3.40pm — 5.20pm Methodological workshop by Olga Glazunova, Associate Professor in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University

Poetry in the lessons of Russian as a foreign language

27 September 2023

4pm — 5.30pm Round table ‘Bilingualism today and tomorrow’. Moderator: Dmitry Ptyushkin, Director of the Language Testing Centre at St Petersburg University

5.30pm — 7pm Methodological workshop

28 September 2023

12 noon — 7pm Research and methodological seminar and advanced training programme ‘Textbook on Russian as foreign language in the 21^st century: textbook modelling’. Organiser: Centre for Non-Degree Programmes in Russian as a Foreign Language

Lecture ‘Experience and new technologies for modelling a textbook on Russian as a foreign language. Programmes and linguodidactic description’. Lecturer: Nina Fedotova, Professor in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University

Workshop ‘How to write a textbook on Russian as foreign language?’ Lecturer: Daria Kolesova, Associate Professor in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University. Analysis/display/preliminary presentation: nomenclature of elements necessary to create the concept of a teaching aid

Workshop ‘Construction set for a textbook on Russian as a foreign language’

• Work in groups to build a textbook concept within given conditions (group level, nationality, uniform, etc.) from components/principles similar to a game of ‘construction set’. The discussion of the results
• Group 1. Grammar textbook. Elena Kosareva, Associate Professor in the Department of Russian for the Humanities and Natural Sciences at St Petersburg University
• Group 2. Textbook on the language of specialty. Andrei Shatilov, Associate Professor in the Department of Russian for the Humanities and Natural Sciences at St Petersburg University
• Group 3. Textbook on Russian as a foreign language (general command of the language; level to choose from). Daria Kolesova, Associate Professor in the department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University. Presentation and discussion of project results

29 September 2023

2pm — 4.30pm Round table ‘Russian classics today: current issues and methodological interpretation’. Organisers: Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching and Centre for Non-Degree Programmes in Russian as a Foreign Language. Presenter: Tatiana Popova, Professor in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching at St Petersburg University