Institute of International Education Shines at Key International Conferences

Faculty members of the Institute of International Education’s Russian as a Foreign Language Department participated in the plenary and breakout sessions of the International Academic and Practical Conference “Russian Literature in International Academic and Cultural Space” at the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Institute of Russian Language and Culture.​

The conference’s topics spanned historic-cultural approaches to and traditions in teaching Russian as a foreign language, specialty language instruction, tools for integrating foreign students into Russian academia, linguistic and methodological aspects of pre-university training in general subjects, AI technologies and digital linguodidactics.​

Yelena Nikolayevna Tarasova, Doctor of Educational Sciences and Chief of the IIE Russian as a Foreign Language Department, co-chaired the “AI Technologies and Digital Linguodidactics” section and delivered a presentation on “Chatbot Techniques in Teaching Russian to Foreigners: the RTU MIREA Experience.”​

Senior Lecturer Tatyana Aleksandrovna Pavlova was a speaker at the 8th International Academic Conference “Text: Problems and Prospects. Aspects of Text Study for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language,” held at the MSU Philology Faculty. Her presentation, “Audiotext as a Digital Tool in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: Development of Receptive Skills,” tackled ways to efficiently use audio-based texts in the modern conditions of digital education and highlighted the role of digital-integrated polycodal text, citing examples from teaching Russian to RTU MIREA’s international students.​

The “Society of Lovers of Russian Letters” at the Lomonosov Moscow State University held its 5th Congress, including several international academic events devoted to language and literature-related research and teaching methodology.​