Russian Language and Literature in a Multiethnic Environment

Profession

Currently, the countries of the post-Soviet space require a lot more specialists fluent in Russian, as there is a tendency to increase the number of migrants from near and far abroad in Russia. In the current conditions, the problem of teaching the Russian language and literature in classes with a multi-ethnic composition of students becomes urgent. The peculiarity of such classes is the simultaneous education of children of different ethnic groups (often living in conditions where there is no language environment) and with different levels of Russian language proficiency. There is a need for specialist philologists who would know the methods of teaching Russian as a non-native and foreign language.
Teachers of Russian language and literature who know how to work in classes with a multiethnic composition of students are able to establish an effective dialogue with representatives of different ethnic groups, form harmonious intercultural and interethnic relations in the classroom, and help students quickly adapt to a sociocultural multilingual environment. In addition, it is no longer enough for modern teachers to have exclusively humanitarian knowledge or master only classical methods of teaching the Russian language and literature. Studying in the master's program “Russian language and literature in a multiethnic environment” will allow the graduate to master interdisciplinary competencies and learn new teaching methods, an integral part of which are electronic and digital technologies.
Graduates of the master's program are sought-after specialists who possess humanitarian knowledge and are able to apply methods of teaching the Russian language and literature in a multi-ethnic linguistic and cultural environment.

Educational Process

The basis of training in the educational program “Russian language and literature in a multiethnic environment” is an interdisciplinary competency-based approach that combines universal philological competencies with specific competencies - multilingual and multicultural.
During the program, students will receive professional knowledge in the field of modern philology, philological text analysis and linguistic expertise, methods of teaching Russian as a foreign and non-native language, literature, modern pedagogical technologies of humanitarian education, functional grammar of the Russian language and methods for the development of systemic literacy, sociocultural adaptation and acculturation in a multilingual environment, as well as practical skills in the field of educational and methodological support of the educational process, features of control in teaching and electronic linguodidactics.
For these purposes, the program includes the following disciplines:
• Applied aspects of modern linguistics
• Comparative typology of languages
• Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (junior levels A1-B1)
• Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (senior levels B2-C1)
• Teaching literature in a multiethnic and multicultural environment
• Intermediality in literature
• Modern pedagogical technologies of humanities education
• Interlingual and intercultural interference in teaching the Russian language
• Acculturation in a multilingual environment
• Language education in a multiethnic and multicultural environment
• Speech contacts in a multilingual society
• Linguoculturology
• Ethnopedagogy and ethnopsychology
• Digital educational environments in the humanitarian sphere/Digital technologies in education
• Operating systems and editors in the humanitarian field
• Project management
• Instructional design
The program “Russian language and literature in a multiethnic environment” provides the classes of a foreign language as well.
The master's program is implemented jointly with the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University.

Practice

The master's program includes several types of practical training.
Each type of practice is aimed at developing specific skills and allows students to fully apply the acquired theoretical knowledge.
Types of practical training:

• familiarization practice;
• pedagogical practice;
• research work;
• pre-graduate practice.
The basis for the practice will be the State Budgetary Educational Institution “School No. 2120 of Moscow”, the Educational and Scientific Information Library Center - the Scientific Library of the RUDN University, partner university Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University.

Career

The practical orientation of the program “Russian language and literature in a multiethnic environment” will allow graduates to work in educational institutions of different levels (teacher in primary school, teacher in secondary school, teacher of secondary specialized educational institution and university, teacher of additional education) with a multiethnic composition of students.
The graduate can also continue his studies in graduate school.