A group where all the students are of different levels: How should you work in such an environment?

Let’s talk about this, but let’s narrow the topic. I will talk about the age range of 7 to 9 years old, and about working in a weekend school with a group of Russian as a Foreign Language, or bilingual, students.

For those who don’t know — a weekend school is a place where immigrants gather to teach their children Russian. This is not a state school with programs, requirements and final exams. Classes are usually held on Saturday and Sunday, hence the name.

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How can you teach children RFL (Russian as a foreign language) without explaining grammar to them?

This is a very easy question; it is very easy to answer, because this topic has been developed for a very long time and everyone is very interested in it. Moreover, I will say that this is the topic that led me to study the methodology of teaching foreign languages.

We have three sections.

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Soroka. Russian language for children