Federico Piccolo
University of Palermo, ITALY; https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7160-0750
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2025.01.17
Bibliographic citation: (ISSN 2657-9774) Educational Role of Language Journal. Volume 2025-1(13). ACTIONS IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION, pp. 138-140.
The teaching of Russian as a foreign language has a long, complex, and surprisingly lively history, stretching from the 12th century to the present day. It is not just about learning a language, but about understanding how culture, history, and political choices have shaped the way Russian has been taught to non-native speakers. Each historical period brought new needs, tools, and theoretical reflections that left their mark on manuals, teaching methods, and language pedagogy. A fundamental contribution to understanding this evolution was made in 2005 by a research group from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (Institut russkogo jazyka imeni A.S. Puškina), led by Professor A.N. Shchukin. The team published a manual that presents a detailed excursus of the stages and developments of teaching techniques, providing a comprehensive overview of how linguistic and pedagogical knowledge has transformed over time. According to the researchers’ work, the history of Russian language teaching),….
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