Teaching Russian as a Foreing Language

The two-year master’s programme prepares to teach Russian as a foreign language. Upon completion of the programme, the graduates acquire knowledge and skills that meet the requirements of contemporary philological and pedagogical sciences and needs of teaching Russian as a foreign language; the graduates can apply the acquired knowledge and skills in teaching students of different age groups who speak other mother tongues and represent various cultures. You can find the list of courses for the programmevia this link.

This programme is aimed at developing the subject and multicultural competences, communicative, methodological, reflective, managerial-administrative, and entrepreneurial skills. It also forms and supports the professional identity of a future teacher. The programme includes traditional as well as innovative philological and pedagogical courses created by leading specialists of the University of Tartu. During the pedagogical internship, students acquire real-life experience of teaching Russian as a foreign language to a mixed age group of non-native speaker students with various cultural backgrounds. 

Titel: Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

Level of study: Master of Arts in Education (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language)

Duration: 2 years

Study-form: Full-time regular studies

Language of instruction: RUS and ENG

Location: Narva, Estonia, EU

Tuition fee: 3800 EUR/year

Study places: 25

Scholarships: not available

  • An opportunity to receive philological and pedagogical education in 2 years.
  • An opportunity to improve the mastery of the Russian language as a foreign language and to reach the proficiency level of C1.
  • An opportunity to choose different courses of any programme of the University of Tartu and to study in a group with native speakers of Russian.
  • Upon completion of the programme, an opportunity to pass a proficiency test of Russian as a foreign language (TORFL) and receive an internationally accepted certificate.

Narva is a Russian-speaking city in EU, with Russian being a home language for almost 95% of its inhabitants. Studying in Narva gives an opportunity to improve the Russian language as a foreign language in everyday and socio-cultural communication in the city environment.

This is one of the reasons why every year Narva College is chosen as a place for short-term and long-term studies of Russian by about 100 students from the USA, France, Great Britain, Sweden and other countries.

Narva is a small city (about 55 000 residents) that is convenient for living and studies. The University  study building and its dormitory are located at working distances.

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