Modern educational technologies and trends in teaching Russian as a foreign language – 2022

13:28, March 21, 2022

Scientific and methodological seminar for teachers and specialists working with foreign students

On April 26, 2022, the Department of Russian for Foreign Students of the Ural Federal University, together with the Ural Guild of Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language, is holding a scientific and methodological seminar for teachers and specialists working with foreign students called "Modern educational technologies and trends in teaching Russian as a foreign language - 2022".

Such a seminar is held for the second time and aims to coordinate the activities of educational institutions in the region, the Ural Guild of Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language, and public organizations in the field of teaching the Russian language and Russian culture, exchange of experience in organizing training events, developing curricula, creating educational programs and manuals, testing.

Among the participants of the seminar are teachers of Russian as a foreign language at different levels of education, specialists working with migrants and bilinguals, managers of admission campaigns, etc.

The following issues are expected to be discussed during the seminar:

• Language learning as a form of foreigner’s adaptation in the cultural and speech environment of the region.
• Modern practices of teaching Russian as a foreign language: approaches, resources, technologies.
• Remote teaching in the field of Russian as a foreign language: expanding opportunities vs. limitations.
• Problems of choosing and including "non-classical" literary and linguacultural material in the teaching of Russian as a foreign language.
• Issues of organizing the teaching of foreigners at different levels of education: considering national and cultural characteristics, problems of assessing the quality and results of education from entrance examinations for foreigners to the State Testing of TORFL.
• Features of teaching profile disciplines to foreign students.

Regional specificity: from the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the university's region to the specifics of teaching Russian as a foreign language to students from different regions.

The seminar will be held online via Zoom.

Participation is free. As a results of the seminar, it is planned to publish electronic collection of materials with placement in the RSCI database.

To participate in the seminar, it is necessary to send an application containing the following information to rki-urgu@yandex.ru  by April 12, 2022:

1. Full Name.
2. Academic degree, title (if any).
3. Place of work and position / freelance.
4. Postal address, email address, contact phone number.
5. Form of participation (report with publication, report without publication, publication without report, listener).
6. Topic.
7. Abstract of the report (5–7 lines).