PROJECT SESSION AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING SOCIO-CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCIES OF TEACHERS OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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Author(s): | Fedosenko E. V., |
| Number of journal: | 2(75) | Date: | June 2026 |
| Annotation: | The article examines a project session as a form of professional development for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in Uzbekistan. The study is based on the original methodological design “What Do I Know About Russia?”, focused on discussing everyday life, values, interpersonal relations, etiquette norms, and rituals of Russian culture. The relevance of the topic stems from the fact that in teacher training and retraining practice the cultural component is often mastered fragmentarily and is not always transformed into a system of specific methodological solutions. The paper shows that a project session makes it possible to combine the communicative approach, project-based learning, and the jigsaw technique in a natural and pedagogically productive way, ensuring collective analysis of information, speech interaction, expert exchange, and subsequent adaptation of the material to different language proficiency levels. The article describes the aims, objectives, stages, and thematic blocks of the project session, as well as the mechanisms for developing teachers’ socio-cultural and cross-cultural competencies. The scientific novelty of the study lies in clarifying the methodological potential of the project session in the system of training teachers of Russian as a foreign language and in identifying the conditions for its effective use in a multicultural educational environment. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of applying the proposed model in professional development courses, school practice, and in designing language classes aimed at preventing intercultural difficulties and developing teachers’ professional reflection. | ||
| Keywords: | project session, teacher of Russian as a foreign language, socio-cultural competency, cross-cultural competency, methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, professional development, jigsaw technique, cultural component, project-based learning, communicative approach |
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| For citation: | Fedosenko E. V. Project session as a tool for developing socio-cultural and cross-cultural competencies of teachers of Russian as a foreign language. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2026;2(75):525—530. DOI: 10.25683/ VOLBI.2026.75.1617. |
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