Russian Language Journal
Keywords
study abroad, digital technology, immersion learning, advanced-level
Abstract
The article examines recent trends in digital and social media consumption among domestic foreign language students and Russian Overseas Flagship students, analyzing a number of approaches for seeding Russian-language material within students’ everyday extracurricular digital practices. The goal of the project has been to encourage language learners to strengthen their own skills at identifying Russian media sources of personal or professional interest and incorporating habits of media consumption into their language-learning experience. The recommendations provided are informed by the results of a survey distributed among American students of Russian in Kazakhstan during the period from 2017 to 2019. The survey asked about the students’ extracurricular use of Russian-language digital media within an extended, immersive study abroad environment.
Recommended Citation
Groce, Alexander M.
(2020)
"Maximizing Target Language Use Outside the Classroom: the Advanced-Level Student of Russian as Digital Consumer,"
Russian Language Journal: Vol. 70:
Iss.
1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1034
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol70/iss1/12
