Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
CLASSES OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN A UNIVERSITY FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS FAMILIAR WITH ENGLISH
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2014
Языканглийский
  • Kolabinova Tatyana Ivanovna, author
  • Palutina Olga Gennadevna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Kolabinova Tatiana, Palutina Olga, CLASSES OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN A UNIVERSITY FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS FAMILIAR WITH ENGLISH//EDULEARN14: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES. - 2014. - Vol., Is.. - P.514-520.
    Annotation Teaching a foreign language is always more effective when the teacher takes into account the students' knowledge of their native language and other languages. Thus many difficulties and typical mistakes can be easily predicted and avoided, and less time is spent on explaining the aspects, which are probably familiar to the students. In Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University Spanish is taught as a first or a second foreign language to students specializing in philology, translation, interpreting and pedagogics. Most students speak Russian as their native language and have at least pre-intermediate level of English. The present article is aimed to outline the aspects of the Russian and the English languages that may facilitate, or sometimes complicate the process of teaching Spanish to such students. For example, Russian is a Slavonic language and uses the Cyrillic alphabet, but during the classes of Spanish there's no need to spend much time teaching the Roman alphabet, as all the stud
    Keywords Spanish as a foreign language, interference, russian speakers, English speakers
    The name of the journal EDULEARN14: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
    URL https://library.iated.org/view/KOLABINOVA2014CLA
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