University Russian Teaching Reference Book (3)

Author: Zheng Mingqiu, compiled by Pei Yufang
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: Language is a communicative tool. The ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is to cultivate students' ability to communicate orally and in writing. The communicative principle should be fully implemented in the basic teaching stage to enable students to master the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. The "Teaching Syllabus for the Basic Stage of Russian Majors in Higher Education" specifies the language knowledge, speech skills, and communicative competence required by the end of the second year. To meet the requirements of the Syllabus, we believe that the teaching of practical courses in the second year should adhere to the principle of "student-centered, textbook-based, efficiency-focused, and balanced oral and written training." Students should continuously consolidate the basic word form changes learned in the first year while absorbing and mastering new vocabulary and grammar in communicative activities, solidly improving their oral and written communicative abilities.
Student-centered means placing the student at the "center." Teachers should focus on concise explanations and extensive practice, avoiding a one-sided lecture. Textbook-based means using the textbook as the foundation, avoiding the expansion of vocabulary and grammar points that might hinder mastery of the textbook content and oral/written skill training. Efficiency-focused means increasing the volume of student practice, requiring active participation in classroom activities, and ensuring students come prepared, thereby reducingness and procrastination in class, improving efficiency, and achieving reinforcement. Balanced oral and written training means coordinating the training and requirements for both oral and written skills, avoiding one-sided emphasis on either while neglecting the other, especially addressing the tendency to undervalue written skills.