scholarly journals Teaching Russian in a closely-related Slovak environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Elena M. Markova ◽  
Roman Kvapil
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
The Status ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The Russian Language

The article discusses features of studying Russian as a foreign language in schools in Slovakia. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that the new socio-political conditions in which Russian is studied as a second foreign language competing with other languages have brought about changes in the status, goals, motives for study, content, approaches to selecting, grouping and presenting material, the methodological concept of teaching. The aim of the work is to identify the features of teaching Russian as a second foreign language in a closely related Slovak language environment. The authors drew on the method of comparison and collation, the method of application (overlaying fragments of language systems), method of component analysis, method of word-formation analysis, methods of analysis of official statistical, sociolinguistic data. In the course of the study, the data of the State Institute for Education Statistics and Forecasts of the Slovak Republic, the peculiarities of Slovak students motivation for learning the Russian language were analyzed, a comparative analysis of the main lexical and grammatical phenomena of the Russian and Slovak languages was carried out. The research resulted in identifying the specifics of Russian as a Slavic language in the status of a second foreign language, the extent of its demand in school practice in Slovakia, reviewing the motives for studying it, and, on the basis of this, developing requirements for selecting, grouping, and studying lexical and grammatical material. The authors see the prospects for teaching the Russian language in Slovakia in combining the system-structural and linguoculturological approaches.

scholarly journals THE PHENOMENON OF SPECIES SUBSTITUTION IN THE NAMES OF MINERALS AND METALS (a Case Study of the Names Including the Lexeme ‘Gold’)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Elena L. Berezovich ◽  
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Valeria S. Kuchko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Chemical Similarity ◽  
Rock Crystal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Species Substitution ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Precious Stones

The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of copper’ etc. As a rule, the objects chosen as a standard for comparing the nominated object with another one are those that were identified earlier than the nominated object and to which a greater value was attributed in many cases (most often the standards are the most valuable precious stones or precious metals (diamond, ruby, emerald, gold). The article presents some typical categories of mineralogical vocabulary which often include nominations with species substitution (for example, trade and everyday names that ‘raise the status’ of a mineral – Siberian diamond ‘colourless topaz’; pejorative names that indicate a false relationship between minerals – false diamond ‘rock crystal’; neutral names that capture the actual external or chemical similarity of objects – black amber ‘jet’, etc.). Separately, the authors focus on combinations with the lexeme gold which denote both substances not related to gold and alloys of gold and other metals – this allows us to trace in detail the possibilities of the separate lexeme’s participation in word formation resulting in nominations with species substitution. The authors propose their own motivational reconstructions for a number of ‘golden’ cases (for example, for mouse gold ‘marcasite’, frog gold ‘platinum’, etc.).

scholarly journals The Project of Communicative Educational Resource in Russian as a Foreign Language with the Use of V-Learning Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Zhiltsov ◽  
Igor A. Maev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The Russian Language

The article describes the project structure of an electronic educational resource in Russian as a foreign language which is based on a system of social interaction including a component of virtual simulation of the Russian language environment. The relevance of the study arises from modern trends in the development of communicative language learning and computer technology that provides the need to study and develop new efficient approaches improving the theory and practice of distance learning of Russian as a foreign language. The purpose of the study is to make a theoretical research on drawing up the structure of an electronic educational resource in Russian as a foreign language with the use of a virtual simulator of the Russian language environment as its component. The main methods are observation of modern trends in the development of electronic resources, analysis of research literature, generalization of the authors' empirical experience in the development of prototypes of learning systems based on the technology of virtual worlds and educational and game applications in the Russian language. The research materials are the works of Russian and foreign researchers devoted to the use of virtual reality technology in language learning. In the course of the study, the modern trends in the development of electronic resources were analyzed, and on this basis the basic principles and practical approaches to the formation of an electronic language environment were identified. The study resulted in theoretical and practical provisions considering an electronic educational resource in Russian as a foreign language as a living and self-developing virtual ecosystem. The results can be used to create a communication-oriented electronic educational resource on Russian as a foreign language.

STUDYING THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AS A FACTOR OF HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION IN THE EURASIAN SPACE

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-124
Author(s):  
Vadim M. Shneider ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Status ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article considers issues related to the status and role of the Russian language in the post-Soviet space. It is emphasized that Russian language remains one of the main factors that still unites the countries of the post-Soviet region, different from a socio-cultural point of view. The author pays special attention to the study of the Russian language in schools. It is noted that in a number of states in the region, the Russian language is compul- sory for learning. These countries include Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In Ukraine, Georgia, Moldo- va, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Turkmenistan, Russian language is taught in secondary schools as a second foreign language. The author emphasizes that language policy does not always correspond to the language environment, which develops naturally and depends on a number of socio-cultural factors. In this regard, the author considers in detail the linguistic situation in each of the countries of the post-Soviet space. In the final part of the article, the author emphasizes that the prospects for studying the Russian language in the post-Soviet countries depend on various factors: the level of training of teachers, the demand for the Russian language, the preservation of the Rus- sian-speaking environment and the pursuit of a flexible language policy.

scholarly journals PROBLEM OF LEXICAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPING AMONG FOREIGN STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY: LINGUISTIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
З.Л. Новоженова ◽  
А. Климкевич
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Information ◽  
Lexical Competence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Speech Situation

В настоящий момент задача формирования лексической компетенции у иностранных студентов-филологов осложнена рядом обстоятельств: состоянием современной коммуникативно-речевой ситуации в России, изменением соотношения нормы и узуса в речевой коммуникации россиян, расширением границ узуса как реального функционирования языка. В этой ситуации многие периферийные (узуальные и ненормативные) явления языка перемещаются в центр. Меняются социально-культурный фон, в котором изучается русский язык, и информационное состояние иностранного студента-русиста. Эти обстоятельства отражаются в содержании и формах обучения. Их игнорирование может создать коммуникативно-речевые риски и профессиональную некомпетентность. Авторы рассматривают проблему нормативного и узуального в практике обучения польских студентов-русистов на трех методических уровнях: программ и академических курсов, учебника и организации, языкового наполнения занятий. Russian as a foreign language, lexical competence, lexical minimum, language norm, usus, social request. The article notes that at the moment the task of forming the lexical competence of foreign students of philology is complicated by factors: this is the state of modern communicative speech situation in Russia, the ratio between the norm and Usus, expanding the boundaries of Usus as a real functioning of language, in this situation, many peripheral (of usual and deviant) moved into the center of the phenomenon; changes in the socio-cultural background, in which we study the Russian language and change the status information of the foreign philology student. These circumstances are reflected in the content and forms of education of foreign students-specialists in Russian philology. Ignoring these circumstances, the training can create communicative speech risks and professional incompetence of the philology students.

scholarly journals THE USE OF THE VERB PRINIYAT (TO ACCEPT) IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND ITS EQUIVALENTS IN THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-427
Author(s):  
Moghaddam Mohsen Khademi ◽  
Mousa Abdollahi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
Russian Verb ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Practice Of Teaching

The object of this paper is the Russian verb priniyat (to accept) which has a wide semantic potential and a wide range of commonly used features in the Russian language. The authors explore various aspects of this verb. At the beginning of the paper, the authors briefly present the etymology of this verb, provide various lexical classifications, restrictions in the use of personal forms of the verb priniyat (to accept), stable combinations and idioms with this verb in the Russian language, and the most common associations with it. Then they give equivalents of this verb in the Persian language. The data presented in the paper can contribute to the theory and practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the Persian language environment, primarily in mastering the verbal subsystem due to its connection with other verbs that in some meanings have similar usage.

scholarly journals SHORT FILM НЕ МОЙ IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
С. Рудольф ◽  
Л.Б. Волкова
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Slavic Studies

Предлагаемые учебные материалы направлены на активизацию речевой деятельности студентов, развитие коммуникативной и социокультурной компетенции, что особенно актуально вне языковой среды. Материалы были апробированы в работе со студентами Института славистики и кавказоведения Йенского университета им. Фридриха Шиллера. The proposed educational materials are aimed at enhancing students' speech activity, developing communicative and sociocultural competence, which is especially important outside the language environment. The materials were tested when teaching the Russian language to students of the Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasian Studies at the University of Jena named after Friedrich Schiller.

scholarly journals Snow in the Russian Language Picture of the World

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (29) ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Jelena Kazimianec
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Word Combination ◽  
Weather Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts ◽  
The Russian Language

This article carries out a semantic and pragmatic description of the Russian word снег “snow,” considering its synonymic and word-formation relations, establishing a family of words, and defining the semantic oppositions in which the word “snow” and its separate word usages appear. The author pays particular attention to the pragmatic connotations of this word, placing them against a background of the different foreign language connotations of appropriating words. The article further investigates the group of the words designating the weather phenomena that typically accompany snowfall: метель “a snowstorm,” вьюга “a snowstorm, a blizzard,” буран “a severe snowstorm,” and пурга “a snowstorm, a blizzard,” defining their semantic range and features of how they function in speech. On the basis of an analysis of the facts provided in dictionaries and poetic discourses, the author comes to a conclusion about the existence of a separate semantic group of words with this meaning that proves the special importance of this weather phenomenon for Russians. The analysis also provides a way to determine that, unlike in other languages, the concept of “snow” in the Russian picture of the world is considered as an active figure: the word combination снег идет “it is snowing” is associated with positive concepts about happiness, the novelty of life, satisfaction with Russian aesthetic concepts about beauty, etc. The author proves that words and concepts united by the component “snow” possess a certain romantic nuance in which, it may be claimed, the unique character of Russian culture consists.

scholarly journals Linguistic Security of Russia in the Mode of Multilingualism

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Boris Zhigalev ◽  
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Anna Prokhorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The One ◽  
Multilingual Approach ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
The Russian Language

The article examines the problem of linguistic security of Russia within the logic of integration into the world community. A new language situation is developing in the context of modern socio-economic and political reforms in Russia. While, on the one hand, there is a rejection of monolingualism and a tendency towards the development of Russian national polylingualism, on the other hand, there is a clear orientation towards promoting multilingualism as a consequence of rapprochement with Europe. The European Union is actively promoting the policy of multilingualism, encouraging learners to expand their linguistic repertoires. Like other representatives of non-EU countries, young Europeans entering Russian universities are mostly multilingual, and for them the Russian language offered as part of their university course is just another foreign language. To promote the Russian language and culture through educating foreign students, faculty members of Russian universities seek to create a special language environment, activating all possible means and technologies to optimize the process, teaching Russian courses for international students, and organizing engaging extra-curricular activities. Despite such serious efforts, however, many foreign students perceive this as an imposition that limits them in the study of other languages and cultures. The authors of the article see a potential solution to this problem in using a multilingual approach as a mechanism for “subtle engagement and promotion” of the Russian language and culture among foreign students. They offer a case study of implementing this approach in a technical university where Russian is taught as a foreign language to future engineers and describe the functional characteristics of multilingual modules built into the Russian language course (facilitative, accelerative, communicative, organizational, and transferable), highlighting the advantages and prospects of the multilingual approach in the formation of linguistic security.

scholarly journals Information and communication technologies and the formation of cross-cultural communication skills in a foreign language environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
A. V. Lentovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Pragmatic Language ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The Russian Language

The article discusses the various possibilities of using ICTs in teaching Russian as a foreign language at the University of Pisa and the methods of working with a modern virtual educational environment. A brief description of the modern educational environment (and, more broadly, ecosystem) that has developed under the influence of informatization, computerization and digitalization of society in the late XX — early XXI centuries is proposed. The paper also focuses on the ways in which the Blended learning approach as an integration of classroom and online learning is put in practice by using the E-learning system and Moodle tools. Particular attention is paid to the methodology of working with the multimedia corpus of the Russian language MURCO in teaching grammar. In particular, it is demonstrated that the use of the corpus allows developing pragmatic language competence and mastering adaptation mechanisms for the adequate implementation of communicative intentions within any social scenario. In language teaching, the recognition of the need to study pragmatics using corpus data is due to the fact that the design of the verbal-semantic and linguo-cognitive levels of the secondary language personality is not enough to form a stable communicative skill. Reaching the third and the highest, i.e. pragmatic level of functioning of the secondary language personality, which allows to realize communicative-activity needs, is impossible without immersion in the environment (which can be artificially recreated) of the language being studied. In particular, it will be demonstrated how the analysis of micro-dialogs from the MURCO corpus, illustrating imperative speech acts, allows not only to describe the elements of the “expanded” semantics of the imperative mood in the Russian language, but also to reveal the socio-pragmatic factors of its use.

scholarly journals Russian language education in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
V. Leonteva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Language

Russian is one of the languages which are learnt in Germany at any educational level. Though today it has lost its positions in the rate of foreign languages chosen by the Germans, there are many interesting projects and initiatives supporting and maintaining the status of the Russian language in Germany. In this paper, I am going to give an overview of the history of cultural relations between Russia and Germany, try to explain the reasons of the current situation and describe the perspectives of the Russian language in today’s Germany. By way of examples, I will discuss such events and projects as “To4ka-Treff”, “RussoMobil” and the activities of the Russian culture centers in Germany, as well as programs in Russian as a foreign language at schools and universities in Germany.

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