Russian Teachers Research Articles

Инновационность употребления русских пословиц в восприятии китайцев-русистов

The article deals with innovative use of the Russian world reflected by Russian proverbs and their variations, which are very popular with Chinese people in general and Chinese teachers of Russian, in particular. Proverbs express the nation’s mentality and world view, they reflect the national character, traditions, everyday life, beliefs, etc. All this determines the permanent value of proverbs for scholars, teachers and students of Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL). That is why proverbs are regarded as an important part of RFL teaching in China. Learning the proverbs helps Chinese students of Russian to understand Russian people’s life and spirit better and more deeply which increases their level of knowledge of Russian and helps to make the intercultural communication more successful.

Трансформация современной образовательной среды в свете приоритетных направлений развития высшей школы

Different aspects of modern education are considered in the article. The subject of the analysis are the processes of changing the Russian higher education system associated with Russia’s accession to the Bologna Declaration, which, in particular, led to the emergence of new requirements for university teachers. Against the background of active processes of integration with foreign-language education systems, the discrepancy of many Russian teachers with the new conditions of the educational process becomes obvious: ignorance of foreign languages (English, first of all), lagging behind the informatization of education, mismatch with the principles of humanization and humanitarization of the learning process, differentiation of education. The article raises the question of the need to increase the psychological, pedagogical, computer and economic literacy of university professors. Authoritative opinions of Russian and foreign experts on the prospects of the educational sphere are given. Attention is drawn to the need to follow the best traditions of domestic education, based on the unity of education and upbringing. The article talks about the important role of studying the native language and literature both in the school and in the university course of study. The urgency of the outstripping nature of education is emphasized, which, in the opinion of the authors of the article, is an important factor in the country’s forward movement.

Learning strategies of students studying Russian as a second foreign language, with relation to English as their first foreign language

Countries are aware that an elective second foreign language is necessary for them to communicate in economic, social and cultural areas rather than one another, since a single foreign language is not sufficient. The second foreign language gets the starting point from the first foreign language. Students who are learning a second foreign language receive support from the first foreign language, such as, the strategies they apply to the second foreign language. This study was aimed to contribute to the field of method and teaching of Russian, by researching the learning strategies of the NEU SOTHM students studying Russian as a second foreign language. Questions regarding which strategies they apply whilst learning Russian and if they make any connection to English, their first foreign language, whilst learning were used as research material. Data obtained by questionnaire were evaluated in the SPSS 15.0 package program.

The Application of Web Technology in Teaching Russian to Foreign Students at Different Levels

The Application of Web Technology in Teaching Russian to Foreign Students at Different Levels

Russian university teachers’ ideas about pedagogic frailty

The paper focusses on the problem of pedagogic frailty in Higher Education in Russia. The main dimensions of pedagogic frailty are described from the point of view of Russian teachers and researchers. Concept maps were used to reveal the teachers’ ideas about the challenges presented by ‘pedagogic frailty’. The content analysis of their concept maps revealed interviewees’ perceptions of the possible options that can be used to generate solutions to the problems created by pedagogic frailty. The detailed analysis of original solutions and examples observed in the interviewees’ concept maps is presented. Based on the results of the research, guidelines about solutions to the problem created by pedagogical frailty are proposed.

Профессионально-коммуникативная компетенция преподавателя русского языка как иностранного

The paper is dedicated to professional readiness of teacher of Russian as foreign language to pedagogical communication. Professional pedagogical communication is considered and estimated by the author as an actionable and system-forming base of interaction of teacher and student in the process of studying. The crucial features of professionalism of teacher of Russian as foreign language indicating the formation of his professional communicative competence are analyzed including mastery of technology of pedagogical communication and mastery of the pedagogical technique.

1917 and All That: A History of Russian at Glasgow University

ABSTRACTThis article examines the history of Russian teaching at Glasgow University from the beginning of 1917 up to the present day, paying particular attention to the context in which the original lectureship was created and to the period from 1976 onwards. Consideration is also given to the questions of who studied Russian, what they were taught and what links have existed with the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

Russian Orthodox Parish Family Clubs of Sobriety. Specific of rehabilitation work (1992-2016)

According to WHO report published in 2014 Russia ranks world N°4 by alcohol consumption, Croatia - N° 11, Serbia - N° 32, Italy - N° 37, USA - N° 56. Per capita alcohol consumption in modern Russia is an average 15.76 litres of pure alcohol. To compare with the year 1912 per capita alcohol consumption in Russia was 3.14 litres of pure alcohol. In WHO opinion per capita alcohol consumption over 8.0 litres of pure alcohol is a national danger.Aid programs for alcohol addicted people exist in the USA for over 100 years. In connection with obsolescence of the most popular and wide-spread Alcoholics Anonymous approach founded in 1930-1940 - other programs are actively developing now.In Russia social sobriety movement has a history of more than 130 years' experience. From the middle of the 19th century there was an active social sobriety movement connected with such names as a great Russian teacher and public figure Rachinsky S.A., the archpriest Alexander Rozhdestvensky, St. Righteous John of Kronstadt. However scientifically based aid programs for alcohol addicted people have spread in the USSR only in the eighties of the XX Century.In Croatia the development of scientific aid program for alcohol addicted has started in the sixties of the XX Century and is connected with the name of a world-famous psychiatrist Vladimir Hudolin (2.05.192226.12.1996). Vladimir Hudolin has graduated from the chair of nervous and mental diseases of medical faculty of the Zagreb university, the chair was based in 1921 by a distinguished psychoneurologist, professor, Russian nobleman Lapinskiy Michail Niki- tovich (1862, Russia - 1949, Argentina). Doing an internship in Great Britain and Scotland clinics in 1952-1953, Vladimir Hudolin has got acquainted with clinical psychiatrist and the pioneer of social psychiatry Joshua Birer who has created in 1938-1939 the first therapeutic social club for patients of lunatic asylum and also with Maxwell Jones and his therapeutic community in Belmont hospital (Henderson Hospital). On the base of psychoneurological office of university hospital named after Doctor Mladen Stojanovic Vladimir Hudolin on his returning to Zagreb has organized open doors system suggested by Scottish psychiatrist John Batty Tyyuk. He has also begun to implement there a therapeutic communities methodology, strategy of work in small groups and family approach.Rising star of social psychiatry- the president of World association of social psychiatry A. Guilherme Ferreira has said about 45-year-old Vladimir Hudolin. Hudolin on the base of experience, theory of systems of Bertalanfi and reflections of his own began to develop social-ecological theory of alcoholism. According to this approach - problems connected with consumption of alcohol and other psychoactive agents are to be considered in the context of deviant behavior and lifestyle of addicted person. In this regard it is necessary to take into consideration the influence of immediate environment and inhabitable environment in general on the individual i.e., to estimate the influence of both individually-psychological and sociocultural factors.On April 1, 1964 Vladimir Hudolin being already a doctor of medical sciences opens at university hospital the Croatia's first The Club System for Treated Alcoholics. By 1979 there were already over 2000 such clubs on the Balkans, and currently the club aid program has spread not only in the countries of the former Yugoslavia but also in more than 30 countries worldwide. The results of the efficiency of this program were amazing as they have shown that among clubs members about 60% had permanent long remission.In Russia wide range of experts became familiar with Vladimir Hudolin's method after an article published by B. Gachich, T.P. Neborakova and E.A. Koshkina in Journal of Addiction Problems. In 1994 an article by A.N. Baburin together with a group of authors was published, in the article Russian experts have shared their experience in Family Clubs of Sobriety (FCS) management in Moscow and Moscow area. …

The Making of the Teacher of Russian as a Foreign Language

The Making of the Teacher of Russian as a Foreign Language

Problems Of Improving Spoken Language Skills In Teaching Russian As A Foreign Language

<p class="3ABSTRAK">While teaching Russian as a foreign language to undergraduate and postgraduate students in India, we observed that the learners quickly pick up writing skills, whereas their spoken language skills are not at the same level. There are many issues which need to be sorted out in order to improve spoken language skills. As written and spoken skills are different, we need to use different methods of teaching for each one of them. </p><p class="3ABSTRAK">Since the first thing that is taught to students, who are learning a language, are alphabets, hence, initially the whole attention is turned towards improving their writing skills. Though, in the beginning, the students also do pick up an elementary level of spoken language, in the intermediate and advanced levels of learning, their spoken language skills suffer due to various factors. One of the main factors being the lack of exposure to the foreign language once the learners are out of the classroom. Since they continue to do homework, they keep in touch with the written skills. However, once they are out of the classroom, the learners and people around them use their own mother tongue or other native languages to speak. As a result, their spoken skills of the foreign language do not improve.</p><p>Measures need to be taken for improving spoken skills: showing feature, as well as animation films; involving the students in discussions with the help of native speakers; providing audio books; showing them TV programs after class hours; involving learners in enacting Russian plays, etc. On the whole, artificial foreign language surroundings need to be created. Let us see how to motivate learners to speak as well as to write foreign language of their choice.</p><p> </p><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>spoken skills, teaching Russian as a foreign language, learning problems</em>

Application of latest Anglicisms in teaching RFL to increase motivation and adaptation of bilingual students

Inconsistency of the vocabulary of study texts and of words students actually use in everyday communication should become the subject of study of teachers of Russian as a foreign language. The inclusion in the curriculum of student slang phrases allows revitalizing the educational process, giving it practical significance. The article analyzes the experience of the use of modern technologies in teaching Russian as a foreign language by instructors of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The paper presents an innovative way to work with Anglicisms at lessons of Russian as a foreign language, an attempt to catalog lexical units students use in online communication.

Application of latest Anglicisms in teaching RFL to increase motivation and adaptation of bilingual students

Inconsistency of the vocabulary of study texts and of words students actually use in everyday communication should become the subject of study of teachers of Russian as a foreign language. The inclusion in the curriculum of student slang phrases allows revitalizing the educational process, giving it practical significance. The article analyzes the experience of the use of modern technologies in teaching Russian as a foreign language by instructors of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The paper presents an innovative way to work with Anglicisms at lessons of Russian as a foreign language, an attempt to catalog lexical units students use in online communication.

Reliability and Structure of the TALIS Social Desirability Scale: An Assessment Based on Item Response Theory

One of the ways of controlling for the influence of social expectations on the answers given by survey respondents is to use a social desirability scale together with the main questions. The social desirability scale, which was included in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) international comparative study for this purpose, was used on a Russian-language sample of teachers without cross-cultural adaptation. In addition, this tool was based on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, whose psychometric characteristics have only been evaluated so far within the framework of classical test theory with mixed results. In order to fill the gap in our understanding of the validity of the TALIS social desirability scale within the framework of item response theory, we analyzed the data obtained from a representative sample of Russian teachers. The results showed that the scale had acceptable reliability, significant unidimensionality, and, at the same time, a number of serious problems with its functionality. We propose measures to improve the quality of the psychometric properties of the scale on the basis of the obtained results, including simulated data. We draw fundamental conclusions about the structure of the social desirability construct.

The role of attitudes in the development of Russian as a foreign language: A retrospective study

The article reports the findings of a retrospective study which looked at Hungarian learners’ attitudes towards Russian people, the Russian language and teachers of Russian. Mixed-methods sequential explanatory design (Ivankova, Creswell, & Stick, 2006) was applied which combines the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in two consecutive phases. First person accounts turned out to be a useful and relevant resource for exploring individual differences in proficiency in Russian. Differences in attitudes appear to play a role in the developmental process, but to what extent this refers to attrition or non-acquisition is unclear.

Professional competence of the teacher of the modern university: mechanisms of formation and development

This article was prepared based on monitoring of Russian universities and teachers devoted to the training of teachers for higher education. Formation of professionally competent and pedagogically trained teaching staff is the most important task of universities, a solution which enhances the quality of training of specialists with higher education. The purpose of this article is to justify the skills required of the modern university teacher and ways of their development. Considered part of university teachers, analyzed the scope of activity of high school teacher, summarized evaluation of the level of their subject teachers and methodical preparation, methods of formation of pedagogical work skills, as well as identify opportunities of universities, faculties and departments in the development of professional competencies of its teaching staff. The article describes the challenges of professionalization of teachers and new ways to build their professional skills and competencies.

Historical Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Possibility

In his article “The Megarian and Aristotelian Concept of Possibility” (“Der Megarische und der Aristotelische Moglichkeitsbegriff,” 1937), Nicolai Hartmann attempts to revive an interpretation of the conception of possibility of the Megarians that stood in opposition to the Aristotelian conception of possibility and thus in opposition to the Aristotelian conception of modality in general. In this introduction, I undertake to situate Hartmann’s article in its historical context. Did Hartmann come to adopt this thesis through his study of ancient Greek philosophy? Or did he already have a predilection for the Megarian conception of possibility prior to this? If so, how did this predilection come about? Was there an influence from his friend Vasily Sesemann, who published an article discussing the Megarians the previous year? Or were both Hartmann and Sesemann influenced early on by their mutual Russian teacher Nikolai Lossky, or even by a general tendency pervading Russian thought—itself grounded in the fatalism typical of the Russian collective unconscious—as we find it expressed in the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, Lev Tolstoy, and other Russian thinkers?

The Use of Multimedia Technologies in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: A Film-Viewing Study

The Use of Multimedia Technologies in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: A Film-Viewing Study

Культура публичной научно-профессиональной речи в системе вузовского обучения русскому языку как иностранному

Культура публичной научно-профессиональной речи в системе вузовского обучения русскому языку как иностранному

Социальный контекст внедрения национальной системы учительского роста в России: информированность и отношение учителей

The article is based on the results of the research conducted by the Center for Applied Psychological and Pedagogical Studies of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education in 2016 and is devoted to the analysis of awareness and attitude of Russian teachers to the national system of teacher development.The study was carried out within the whole country; 838 teachers from 9 federal districts were surveyed.The results showed that a Russian teacher has little awareness about the national system of teacher growth (NSTG).At the same time, the level of awareness largely determines the attitude towards the implementation of NSTG.In general, Russian teachers have indicated a positive attitude towards the implementation of a horizontal hierarchy of positions, however, they are not certain that the new model would provide them with new opportunities for career growth.This article assesses the readiness of schools to move to a new system and the likely consequences of such a move, according to the opinion of the direct participants of the process – teachers from general education schools.

Russian Language Teaching in College under the New Situation

Since the 21st century, the cooperation between China and Russia becomes more frequently in the fields of economics, tourism, politics, military, and culture and so on. The new situation makes an urgent need of versatile and practical talents who are both proficient in the expertise and familiar with Russian. Therefore, the Russian language teaching in college has drawn widely attention. This paper combines the reform and practice of college Russian teaching to make a review of the teaching methods of Russian language under the new situation.