- Department: Language and Linguistic Science
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
Learning a language can be a transformative and enriching experience. Both the process and the outcomes are beneficial at various levels, from increased neuroplasticity to improving your overall academic performance, fostering empathy and intercultural awareness, and enhancing your career opportunities. This course is aimed at students who already have some knowledge of Russian. Over the course of a semester, it will steadily build the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary for students to engage in everyday conversations and with short texts. It will focus on developing a communicative competence at intermediate level.
Russian Language and Cultures: Lower Intermediate or equivalent.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 |
B | Semester 2 2024-25 |
The module aims are to:
further develop the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking);
to improve student’s communicative competence;
to understand and produce texts on topics which are familiar and of personal interest;
to give the students further insight into everyday life in the Russian speaking countries.
Students will engage, individually and in groups, in activities and tasks emphasising three core communicative skills:
reception activities (oral, audio-video and reading comprehension);
production activities (oral and written production);
interaction activities (oral, written and online interaction).
The mediums of instruction are Russian and English.
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Understand straightforward factual texts with a satisfactory level of comprehension.
Produce short, complex texts on topics of interest and give and justify their opinion.
Summarise, report and give their opinion about accumulated factual information and produce very brief reports in a standard conventionalised format.
Express personal opinions and exchange information on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).
Understand the main points on familiar matters regularly encountered.
Engage in spontaneous conversation and give reasons and opinions
Topics may include:
Travel and tourism;
Healthy lifestyle;
Russian cities;
Social media;
Education in Russia or home country;
Cultures, traditions and customs.
Task | % of module mark |
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Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 60 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 40 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 60 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 40 |
Feedback on exams and essays as per University regulations.
Course materials and guided readings will be provided by the module convenors via the VLE at the start of the semester.