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Russian Language and Cultures: Beginner - LFA00228L

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• Department: Language and Linguistic Science
• Credit value: 20 credits
• Credit level: F
• Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
  • See module specification for other years: 2024-25

Module summary

This course is aimed at students who have no previous knowledge of Russian. Over the course of a semester, it will steadily build the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to learn Russian and communicate in basic situations. It will focus on developing a communicative competence from beginner level and provide a foundation for further study.

Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Semester 1 2023-24
B	Semester 2 2023-24

Module aims

The aims of this module are:

• to build up basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing

• to develop strategies for learning Russian

• to develop interactive skills in familiar situations

• to introduce and practise the writing system and orthography

Students will engage, individually and in groups, in activities and tasks emphasising three core communicative skills:

1. reception activities (oral, audio-video and reading comprehension);

2. production activities (oral and written production);

3. interaction activities (oral, written and online interaction).

The medium of instruction is English and Russian.

Module learning outcomes

• Ability to understand basic expressions and greetings, simple informational material and texts on familiar everyday subjects.

• Ability to produce short phrases and series of simple sentences about familiar everyday subjects.

• Ability to interact in a simple way, ask and answer questions on familiar daily topics.

• Ability to recognise basic cultural differences and to establish basic social contact by using everyday polite forms of greetings, farewells and introductions.

Module content

Topics may include:

• greetings and general polite forms;

• exchanging personal information;

• basic conversation at shops and restaurants;

• talking about daily routine;

• talking about what you did and what you are planning to do;

• talking about family and going to doctor’s.

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)	60
Oral presentation/seminar/exam	40

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)	60
Oral presentation/seminar/exam	40

Module feedback

Feedback on exams and essays as per University regulations.

Indicative reading

None