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