Summer School of Russian – 2022

Courses of Russian as a Foreign Language

The Belarusian State University offers intensive and interactive Russian language courses at elementary, basic and advanced levels which enable students to get in contact personally and actively with the Russian language as well as the history and traditions of Belarus.

The courses of Russian as a foreign language

• are offered from September till June;
• include 20 academic hours per week;
• cost from 310 to 2300 USD depending on the chosen period of stay in Belarus (i.e. 4, 12, 18 or 36 weeks).

Due to interactive role games, discussions about intercultural communication, educational excursions and cultural events the courses encourage students in a creative, innovative and diversified manner.

    Russian Language Summer School

At a language Summer school organized at the Belarusian State University from July to August you can improve your Russian language skills.

Summer school offers the following programs:

4 weeks, 20 academic hours per week – 370 USD;

6 weeks, 20 academic hours per week – 520 USD;

8 weeks, 20 academic hours per week – 690 USD.

If desired, the Belarusian State University can offer a curriculum supplemented by tours of Belarus. Thus you can improve your Russian language and discover Belarus as well!

Syllabus of «Russian as a foreign language»

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE

This course is designed to meet the requirements of the educational program of training courses of «Russian as a foreign language» for foreign citizens in the Summer School of the Russian language. In the process of training, students will be able to complete a course of (elementary, basic, first certification) level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language in accordance with the standard requirements of the curriculum for foreign students that correspond to the certification levels – A1 (A2, B1).

2. THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE

In accordance with the curriculum of the educational program of training courses in the discipline «Russian as a foreign language» the total number of academic hours of the course includes 4 credits for every four weeks of training that equals 120 academic hours, including training in the classroom – 80 academic hours, self-study – 40 academic hours.

Contents of educational material

3. COURSE GOAL

Communicative goals:

• to form students' ability to use the Russian language in main types of communication activities in social, social-cultural, educational and professional spheres of the intended use of the language;
• to introduce students to certain types of speech intentions and communication programs in a verbal form, with the use of the norms of speech etiquette in accordance with the laws and norms of Russian;
• to teach students main types of speech activities: listening (monologue and dialogical speech), writing (writing reproduction of one's own utterance and writing production of someone else's speech), speaking (dialogical and monologue speech) in any communicative situation.

Cognitive goals:

• to develop rational ways of thinking, the ability to produce various logical operations;
• to form the tasks of planning and achieving results in educational activities in Russian.

Developmental goals:

• to form the ability to present their point of view on a given problem in Russian; evaluate the importance of someone else's point of view.
• to introduce students to the best achievements of the Belarusian culture, immerse in the socio-cultural language environment.

4. COMPETENCIES

• to engage students in everyday communication within the appropriate level of language proficiency;
• to execute correct sound, rhythmic and intonation formulation of the utterance in monologue and dialogical speech with a minimum phonetic and phonemic errors that do not impede the act of communication;
• to reproduce verbally and in written form the text they have read or listened to with the required level of details, highlighting the necessary communicatively valuable information and presenting it in accordance with the norms of the Russian language and in a certain logical sequence;
• to create their own oral or written text, composed of coherent, logical, grammatically correct statements, constructed in accordance with the communicative task;
• to be able to implement certain types of speech intentions in the verbal form in accordance with the laws and norms of Russian and speech etiquette;
• to use the lexical minimum of an appropriate level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language, serving mainly every day and socio-cultural areas of communication;
• to use linguistic skills in educational and professional activities.

5. COURSE OUTCOMES

After completing the course students will be able to:

• enter into life conversation in Russian in the field of everyday and academic communication at the appropriate level of language proficiency;
• possess the lexical minimum of an appropriate level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language, serving mainly every day and socio-cultural areas of communication;
• analyze and interpret the information presented in oral or written text, as well as assess the author's conclusions;
• write a resume and cover letter, take part in interviews, including online in Russian;
• organize their speech activity in accordance with the norms and forms of speech etiquette of the modern Russian.

Courses of Russian as a Foreign Language are held from September to June.  

The curriculum is based on module principle according to learners' wish: 20 academic hours per week within 4, 12, 18, 36 weeks (80-720 academic hours) and includes the material that meets the requirements of certificate levels of language proficiency:

• Elementary level:

    -     elementary communication (the language of survival);

    -     lingua-cultural adaptation;

    -     spoken Russian practice.

• Basic level:  

    -     lexical-grammar correction course;

    -     intensive course of oral practice and reading;

    -     a course of professionally oriented language.

• Advanced level:  

    -    the difficulties of Russian grammar;

    -    the language of business and commerce. Business correspondence;

    -    Russian and Belarusian culture and civilization;

    -    spoken Russian.

Learning is provided in the Russian language environment and represents an intensive course of studies. The intensity is supported by introduction in the course of studies some special modules: the Internet module, the module of authentic materials, the module of control testing.

Studies are aimed at intensifying mental and creative activities of learners. Innovation technologies are used in the process of teaching to provide diversity of lessons introducing interactive role games, discussions on problems of interc ultural communication, educational excursions and lingua-cultural events.

- Cost of invitation: $45;

- Tuition fees depend on intensity and terms:

• Summer school: $370–690;
• Courses of Russian: $310–2300.

- Accomodation depends on the type of a dormitory and varies from $ 40 to $ 75 per month.

- Extra services: medical insurance , meeting at the airport or at the rail-way station, excursion tours, entertainment programs.

   Contacts:

Dean of the faculty: Molofeev Vyacheslav: +375 17 2842682; Этот адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. У вас должен быть включен JavaScript для просмотра.

Specialists: +375 17 2840002; Этот адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. У вас должен быть включен JavaScript для просмотра.