Table of Contents

Contextualizing Student-centered Teaching of RFL

1. Student-centered Teaching of Russian: From Principles to Practice

Cynthia L. Martin and Svetlana V. Nuss

2. History of Student-centeredness, Its Modern Vision in Education, and What This Means for Teaching L2 Russian Today

Svetlana V. Nuss

Know your students

3. Self-Efficacy-Based Instructional Method in Teaching Beginner Russian:

Towards Better Strategic Self-Regulated Learning

Tatiana Maslova

4. Correct Me if I’m Wrong: Student Attitudes towards Learning Russian Grammar

Alexander Lorenz

5. Rough and Beautiful: Russian in Contemporary Czechia from the Perspectives of Corpus Research and Pupilsʼ Attitudes

Michal Místecký and Denisa Místecká

Moving toward student-centered curriculum design and assessment

6. Making More Time for Proficiency: A "Flipped" Model for Adding Authenticity

Cori Anderson

7. My Russian Journey: Rethinking Teaching Russian to Beginners

Svetlana Sokolova, Daria Kosheleva, Elena Bjørgve, Laura A. Janda, Tore Nesset and Elmira Zhamaletdinova

8. Bringing Task-Based Instruction Online: Challenges of Remote Language Assessment

Brian James Baer and Tanya McIntyre

Embracing change and innovation

9. Lessons of the Pandemic: A Critical Look at Digital Tools for Online and Face-to-Face Instruction of Russian as a Foreign Language

Maria Khotimsky and Anna Leontyeva

10. Preparation for Study Abroad: The Action-oriented Approach for RFL Students

Snezhana Zheltoukhova

11. Transposing Venice to Russia: Task-based "Recipes" for developing figurative thinking

Ludmilla A’Beckett

12. Reflections on practice, additional considerations, and the importance of institutional support for teachers

Cynthia L. Martin and Svetlana V. Nuss

About the Author

Svetlana V. Nuss is a Second Language Acquisition (SLA) consultant and coach affiliated with the University of Alaska, USA.

Cynthia L. Martin is the Undergraduate Program Director for Russian, University of Maryland, USA.