Russian as a Foreign Language
Course description
The discipline is designed for non-native speakers of Russian - at beginner and intermediate levels. The goal of the Russian as a Foreign Language course is to prepare students for success in the Russian-medium environment by developing Russian-language skills for everyday communication as well as the basis for academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Classes are student-centered and interactive, with a communicative, integrated-skills approach.
Designed for students whose first language is not Russian, RFL course offer an integrated whole-language approach to the Russian language through intensive reading, writing, speaking, and listening, focusing on Russian culture and communicative competence as their goals.
Russian as a Foreign Language classes enable students to improve their facility with the Russian language, giving them an opportunity to perform more effectively in content area classes.
Course objective
Successful performance of the course indicates an intermediate level of communicative competence, which enables students to satisfy their main communicative needs in everyday, sociocultural, educational and professional areas of communication. In other words, they feel more confident in the country where the foreign language is spoken in most routine situations and can come up with a significant number of problems and tasks they encounter in the everyday life.
Assessment
Exam consists of 3 parts: reading, writing, auding.
Main reading
 Shustikova, T., Kulakova, V., Karpus’ Ja. et al. Russian language is my friend: Textbook
 of Russian language for foreign students. – Moscow, 2004.
Khavronina, S., Shirichenskaya A. Russian language in exercises: schoolbook for English speakers. Moscow, 2000.
Ovsienko Yu. Russian for Beginners: textbook for English speakers. Moscow, 1999.