Turning Learning into Passion: An artistic and neurodidactic approach to school teaching
Olga Bramley (adapted and translated by Natalia Lyons Ph.D., MITI, DPSI, SFHEA King’s College London) London School of Russian Language and Literature www.russian-school.co.uk A very good friend of our school, a children’s writer – Vadim Levin once said: learning...
Errors in cursive writing by Canadian learners of Russian as a foreign language (part 1)
Veronika Makarova, University of Saskatchewan and Eleonora Usenkova, University of Saskatchewan, Parkland College, Canada But Russian! Look at it! I’ll show you: ю ж щ ш ц я and, my least favourite … ы (‘ih’), a special vowel with a pronunciation that suspends all...
Errors in cursive writing by Canadian learners of Russian as a foreign language (part 2)
Veronika Makarova, University of Saskatchewan and Eleonora Usenkova, University of Saskatchewan, Parkland College, Canada IV. Discussion In this section, we provide a further discussion of the reasons for certain types of errors. IV. 1. The sources of letter...
Training teachers of Russian in the UK: An update
Mark Payne (University of Sheffield) With the new School Direct initiative in teacher training launched this year, the intention in future is that more student teachers will be trained in schools than in universities (Department for Education, 2013). In brief, the...