Continued development of the basic language skills and of familiarity with Russian culture. C. Detailed Description of Conduct of Course Class instruction focusses on communication practice utilizing the situations, communication tasks, vocabulary, culture, and grammar introduced in a given chapter.
Class is conducted almost exclusively in the target language.
D. Goals and Objectives of the Course Students will develop language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing necessary for everyday life in a Russian speaking country. As regards speaking, students will be able to communicate on a basic level with a greater variety of learned material and will begin to recombine learned elements. Students' listening skills will enable them to recognize a wide variety of learned material consisting of words and phrases and also some sentence length utterances, particularly where context strongly supports understanding and speech is clearly audible. As regards reading, students will be able to identify an increasing amount of learned material without assistance and to understand a limited amount of new material when supported by context or dictionary assistance. In writing, students will be able to reproduce a variety of learned phrases and some basic sentences by recombining learned material.