Lexical Features of Text Complexity: the case of Russian academic texts

The work presented in this paper is a part of an ongoing project that investigates academic text features indicative of its complexity at different grade levels. In this study we examine comparative complexity of Social science texts used in Russian secondary and high schools.

Complexity of Russian Academic Texts as the Function of Syntactic Parameters

Tatar Exams Needs Analysis: The Case of Kazan

Tatar Language Tests for Maintaining a Language of a Minority Ethnic Group in Russia: The Case of Kazan

The presentation reports on a needs analysis held to determine the demands of Tatar course students? taking the Tatar language test at Kazan Federal University, Russia.

The Tatar language tests developed on CEFR ideas is a relatively new phenomenon. The impact of these tests on language education in the Republic of Tatarstan and their function to serve as a tool to maintain a language and transfer cultural values have not yet been studied.

Cultural Exchange via Online Teaching

For language and culture students, actual engagement with native speakers from different cultures remains a key aspect of their preparation for careers in teaching, translation, and travel. This paper discusses one example of the online teaching mode for teaching Linguistic courses in English as a F

Discourse of pirology

The aim of the papaer to find models of speech in the sphere pyrology in russian language

The First Language Assessment Course in Kazan University (Russia): Learning Outcomes

The report is a case of study of the impact of the Language Assessment Course in Kazan University piloted in 2012-13 as part of the implementation of TEMPUS Proset 2011-14 Project, the major participants of which are CRELLA and 14 Russian Universities.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE VS SUBLANGUAGE AND SUBCULTURE

Cultural Information in Professional Dictionaries

TEMPUS Proset: The Impact Of A Language Assessment Course In A Micro-Educational Context

Phraseology in Multilingual Society

Representation of ethnic identity of Tatars through the ethnonym ?Tatar?

The report summarizes the study of the ways young people in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation) construct their ethnic identity and assert their ethnic position and focuses on the evolution of the connotations of the ethnonym ?Tatar? in the Tatar and Russian languages.