Russian I

The student will acquire the theoretical knowledge necessary to develop metalinguistic reflection in a contrastive and intercultural perspective. The student should develop sufficient language skills to interact appropriately on a range of topics and in professional communication (level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). A detailed description of syntactic structures in context in a varied range of texts is the main objective of the course. The student should be able to use the same structures in creating oral and written texts. The learner is expected to achieve a sufficient autonomy in language study so as to improve constantly and consolidate his lexical, morphological and syntactic skills.

The learner is expected to acquire the necessary skills to attend lessons, conferences and broadcasts on familiar topics in Russian, to read texts of some complexity, such as newspapers articles or specialized texts. The student should achieve a sufficient range of language competence to give clear descriptions, express viewpoints and develop arguments on different subjects, using some complex sentence forms. As far as LSPs are concerned, the learner will consolidate written and oral competencies in the field of tourism. By the end of the course the student should be able to recognize and partially produce complex texts, showing use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.