Description
Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.
With the lightning pace of modern news, social media, and technology, textbooks quickly become outdated and as a response to these rapid changes, this edited volume showcases a wide range of approaches to teaching RFL with and beyond traditional textbooks. The reader will find many creative ideas and solid practical advice from colleagues who have experimented with task- based language teaching, corpus-based learning, drama-based pedagogy, community-engaged pedagogy, and technology-mediated language learning, while incorporating authentic materials and turning them into living textbooks.
The book will be a useful resource for Russian instructors and language departments interested in engaging their students with creative and unique courses.
Table of Contents
Teaching Russian Without a Textbook
1 Teaching Russian Without a Textbook: Trends and Dynamics
2 Supplementing L2 Curriculum: Research-Informed Practice of What, Why, and How
Transcending Language Learning
3 Combining Experiential Learning Theory and Drama-Based Pedagogy in Advanced Russian Course
4 Learning by Doing: Podcasts in a Low-Advanced Russian Classroom5 Globally Integrated Community-Based Pedagogy for the Russian Classroom: Developing a Historic Walking Tour as a Community Project
6 Functional Everyday Russian: A Pre-Departure Course to Improve Study Abroad Participants’ Willingness to Communicate7 Russian Experience on SpatialChat: Global Simulation of Оdnokashniki 8 In the Dynamic Classroom: Teaching Colloquial Russian
9 Integrating Corpus-Based Activities into Russian Writing Classrooms
10 Usage-Based Model of Language in a Beginning Russian Course
11 “Songs Help”: Learning Russian Through the Use of Songs and Animated Films
