Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook

<p><em>Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook </em>is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook. </p><p>With the lightning pace of modern news social media and technology textbooks quickly become outdated and as a response to these rapid changes this edited volume showcases a wide range of approaches to teaching RFL with and beyond traditional textbooks. The reader will find many creative ideas and solid practical advice from colleagues who have experimented with task- based language teaching corpus-based learning drama-based pedagogy community-engaged pedagogy and technology-mediated language learning while incorporating authentic materials and turning them into living textbooks.</p><p>The book will be a useful resource for Russian instructors and language departments interested in engaging their students with creative and unique courses.</p>