Teaching Russian in France

Tatyana Kuroyedova, a student of our Department of Foreign Languages, has shared her impressions of her one-year practical training in France.

“Together with one of my peers (her name’s Elmira Dosmukhanova), we both won a grant of the Ministry of Education of France to cover a one-year program of working as an assistant and teaching Russian at French schools within an academic year. Elmira worked in a small town near Versailles, while I worked in Aix-en-Provence in the south of the country. We really enjoyed the year we spent there! We managed to awake our students’ interest towards the Russian culture and language; we also gained precious experience of living in the French environment. We improved our French greatly. French secondary schools teach Russian as a third foreign language. French students have more vacations that their Russian peers; they have no classes on Wednesday and at weekends; so we had much free time. We traveled not just in France, but also in Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy.

Our two other peers got the same grant this year: Marina Ligay will teach Russian in Orsay, while Dina Urazalieva will work in Nice.

We’d like to thank our Dean Dr. Nadezhda Emelyanova, as well as Dr. Elena Donchenko (Head of the Chair of Romanic Philology), and Dr. Alfiya Salkhenova (Director of the University Center of International Testing in French) for their support”.

Russian original information source: the Innovative Laboratory of Information Linguistics of ASU