Seminar “Language aspects of integration and self-identification in the modern world”
30 january at 10.30 MSK
The scientific seminar “Language aspects of integration and self-identification in modern world” will be held online on January 30, 2023. The speakers are: Olga Borisovna Maksimova, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages (RUDN University, Moscow, Russia); Alexander Albertovich Maslikov, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory, Department of Technical Physics (“Protvino” Branch of Dubna State University, Protvino, Russia); Yuri Sergeevich Medvedev, Ph. D. in History, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages (RUDN University, Moscow, Russia).
The purpose of the event: The scientific seminar is dedicated to improving the quality of teaching foreign languages and cultures in accordance with the new challenges posed to humanitarian education; expanding active contacts with scientists and teachers of foreign languages and humanities from leading universities, raising the status of foreign languages and humanities, developing the academic reputation of the RUDN University and the incoming mobility of leading scientists in the RUDN University.
The tasks of the seminar:
- to provide insight into cross-linguistic interference and positive transfer in the third language acquisition: the case of learning English for Special Purposes as a second foreign language by Russian-speaking students who study one of the European languages (French, German or the Spanish language) as their first foreign language;
- to inform the participants about the statistical analysis methods of the results of the pilot study of cross-linguistic interference in multilingual learning environment;
- to reveal the specificity of coloronims in English and Russian languages.