Trajectories of Russian-Slovak Scientific and Pedagogical cooperation
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On December 5, 2020, Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Association of Russian Linguists of Slovakia (ARS), with the support of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL), held an International scientific and practical online Conference Trajectories of Russian-Slovak Scientific and Pedagogical cooperation.
The event was attended by more than 80 Russian speakers from Russia and Slovakia.
The plenary session was opened by the Vice-rector of Moscow University, Vice-President of MAPRYAL Tatiana Kortava. Her report was devoted to the problems of cross-reception of cultural and historical phenomena, which opens up new facets in the portraits of representatives of the creative noblesse of Slovakia and Russia. The cross-cultural linguodidactic vector allows you to expand the audience of Russian language learners by attracting representatives of different specialties and increase the level of motivation.
Professor Eva Kollarova, President of the Association of Russian Linguists of Slovakia, demonstrated the effectiveness of the practical implementation of the culture-centered educational paradigm based on the principle of teaching Russian through the knowledge of cultural archetypes.
The highlight of the plenary session was the speech of the Rector of the Gorky Literary Institute, a graduate of the Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University Alexey Varlamov. The well-known writer and scholar of philology with undisguised nostalgia recalled how 15 years ago he worked as a guest lecturer at the university in Trnava, about his Slovak students and colleagues. Perhaps it is Slovakia with its careful and attentive attitude to Russian culture, the fate of which was dedicated to the speech of Alexey Varlamov, inspired him to create a unique series of biographies of Russian writers. After all, the first of the books in this series – the biography of Alexander Green, was published in 2005, when Alexey Varlamov worked at the University of Trnava. Interestingly, one of the organizers of the Russian-Slovak conference, a classmate of Alexey Varlamov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian Language and Culture, Valery Chastnykh, recently defended his PhD thesis on the biographical genre in the works of Alexey Varlamov. These long-standing and recently formed creative and professional ties made the atmosphere of the conference friendly and warm.
The event programme was rich and varied: the round table of the "Cultural dominant in the teaching of the Russian language"; pedagogical workshop in which the performance of University teachers from the Moscow State University and Slovak universities alternated with presentations of educational programs and benefits for teachers Slovak primary and secondary schools in the Russian language, teaching Studio, which held an open lesson of the Russian language demonstration of communicative teaching techniques in a remote format. In addition, the Russian colleagues opened a "Pedagogical Video Box" for Slovak teachers with recordings of lessons of University Gymnasium teachers.
A distinctive feature of the conference was its practical orientation. Many of the speeches contained specific proposals for the development of Russian-Slovak cooperation in various areas, including:
- literary evenings, conversations with contemporary writers;
- creation of interdisciplinary research groups, including youth studies, for research in the field of cultural borrowings and transformations of world archetypes in Russian and Slovak cultures;
- opening of an Electronic Teacher's Room (E-teacher) for regular meetings of teachers and teachers of the two countries.
