Russian

From Intermediate to Advanced
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-43228-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Russisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a contemporary, communicative textbook designed to help learners to progress to advanced proficiency in Russian.

Organized around culturally and socially relevant themes from across the Russophone world, the textbook develops students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. This second edition retains the pedagogical framework of the first edition while incorporating updated materials that reflect contemporary developments in Russian-speaking cultures.

Key features include:

· chapter structure that gradually develops students’ ability to engage in extended discourse, progressing from description and narration to discussion, debate, argumentation, and hypothesizing;

· authentic readings, audio, and video materials drawn from a wide range of genres, including video blogs, interviews, opinion pieces, social media, surveys, infographics, and news reports;

· broader representation of the Russophone world, including perspectives from Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic states, Eastern Europe, and Russian-speaking diasporic communities;

· collaborative task-based activities and projects that engage learners’ creativity while allowing them to practice communicative competence through realistic scenarios;

· particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss, and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse;

· special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse;

· an author website offering multimedia resources for students and instructors, lexical and grammar exercises, and additional materials is available via www.routledge.com/9781032432281.

Written by the experienced author team behind Beginner’s Russian (2010, 2022) and V Puti (2005, 2025), this textbook is an essential resource for students of Russian working towards Advanced (ACTFL) or B2-C1 (CEFR) level proficiency in Russian. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kudyma, Anna S.

Kagan, Olga E.

Miller, Frank J.

Lavery, Michael A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Anna S. Kudyma is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian, Coordinator of the Russian Language Program and Teaching Assistant Supervisor in the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Olga E. Kagan was Professor and Director of Language Programs in the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Frank J. Miller was Professor and Coordinator of the Russian Language Program in the Departments of Slavic Languages at Columbia University and Barnard College, USA.

Michael A. Lavery is Assistant Professor of Russian in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.