RESULTS OF TPSU RESEARCH WERE PUBLISHED IN THE YEARBOOK OF EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (POLAND)
The materials of the VI International Scientific-Practical Seminar "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: Theory and Practice", which was held in Tomsk in November last year, have been published in the ninth issue of the Yearbook of Eastern European Studies (Wroclaw, Poland). The scientific event was organized by the specialists of the Center for Russian Language, the Department of International Cooperation (TSPU) and the Foundation "Institute of Professional Development" (Poland, Wroclaw). It was attended by specialists of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University as well as foreign undergraduate and graduate students of the university.
The Yearbook of Eastern European Studies is an international interdisciplinary journal devoted to humanitarian research in the field of history, literature, anthropology, politics, and culture of Eastern Europe. The journal is included in the international citation databases of Central and Eastern European Online Library and the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Specialists and foreign students of the TSPU had the opportunity to publish the results of research projects.
In their research, the university representatives spoke about the discursive approach to teaching a foreign language; studied the uniqueness of business etiquette in Chinese culture, spoke about the problems of speaking at the lesson of Russian as a foreign language in the Chinese classroom, noted the typological differences between Russian and Chinese phonetics, considered the textbook as a means of forming a language picture of the student and more.
The publication of the seminar materials was made possible thanks to the publishing and educational activities of Irina Popadeikina, Ph.D. in Philology and History, graduate of the Faculty of History and Philology, and Rafal Chahor, Ph.D. in Political Science, enthusiastic scholars and creators of the successful and promising scientific and educational project "Institute for Professional Development Foundation".