Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language: who among RUDN international students knows Russian better?

Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language: who among RUDN international students knows Russian better?

April 19-20, the Philological faculty Department of Russian Language and Methodology of Teaching hosted the second final round of the University Student Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language “Russia: Traditions and Modernity”. The winners will represent RUDN at the All-Russian Russian Language Olympiad among foreign students in the autumn of 2019.

The second round of the Olympiad was attended by 1st – 4th year foreign students, who had passed the correspondence written stage in their faculties. The in-person student competition was traditionally held separately in two directions - general humanitarian profiles and natural science and technical profiles. Participants presented and defended projects before the jury, the latter noting both good and fluent Russian (B2 +) and the culture of Russian verbal communication, as well as knowledge of regional geographic material and general cultural background material on the subject of the Olympiad and the ability to present this knowledge in a project in Russian.

The work of the finalists was evaluated by the heads of the teams of the faculties under the chairmanship of Elena Baryshnikova, PhD, associate professor of the department of the Russian language and the methodology of its teaching.

The jury awarded the following places to the participants of the competition for each direction:

Natural and technical profiles:

I place - Jaber Khalil Abed Alnacer Abedalkadera, Jordan, 3rd year, Medical Institute, specialty "General Medicine"

II place - Zeynal Abdin Husayn, Syria, 2nd year, Engineering Academy, specialty "Architecture"

III place - Khatib Yazid, Israel, 3rd year, Agrarian-Technological Institute, specialty "Veterinary"

Humanities profile:

I place - Li Ziyang, 3rd year, China, Faculty of Philology, specialty "Linguistics"

II place - Peter Stanchev, 1st year, Bulgaria, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, specialty "International Relations"

III place - Munkassa Maba Exosé Relia Vertyu, 2nd year, Congo, Faculty of Philology, specialty "Philology"

III place - Li Syalan, 2nd year, China, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, specialty “International Relations”

 

 

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