Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

Svetlana V. Nuss is a Language Acquisition Instructional Consultant and Coach, University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A.Wendy Whitehead Martelle is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, ESL, and Russian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A.

• 1. Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: Perspectives and practice 2. Morphology acquisition research meets instruction of L2 Russian: A contextualized literature review 3. Cracking the Cyrillic code through tasks: Implications for instruction and foreign language teacher education 4. Learner corpus as a medium for tasks 5. Task-based vlogs in an Elementary Russian classroom 6. Russian and Russia through tasks for beginners: Applying task-based language teaching at a low proficiency level 7. Teaching Russian in Brazil: Learner-centered task design and TORFL connection 8. Task-Based learning in the "grand simulation" context: Six principles for success from isolated immersion programs 9. Использование целевого задания в краткосрочных курсах РКИ для иностранных студентов-нефилологов 10. Task-based peer interaction in Russian as a second/foreign language classes 11. Kommunalka: Virtual space as a platform for task-based learning 12. Developing global competence in an advanced Russian course 13. TBLT in Russian classrooms: Reflections on practice and future directions