The I love Russian (Я Люблю Русский язык) course book series are created and published by Liden & Denz, the leading provider of Russian courses in Russia since 1992. The modern, up-to-date syllabus, effective and pragmatic study plan, and compliance with the most advanced approaches to language teaching brought about the necessity of creating authentic course books, tied to CEFR and can-do criteria.
I love Russian A1, A2, and B1 are created by Liden & Denz academic team in accordance with communicative approach to language teaching and can-do criteria, have been thoroughly and intensively tested at our campuses in St.Petersburg, Moscow, Riga and Irkutsk, and are the cornerstone of our syllabus. The students appreciate the clear layout while teachers have a perfect tool to guide them through the language basics simultaneously building communicative and pragmatic language competences.
The dynamic and attractive editions’ content is up-to-date and covers critical and controversial topics, while being clearly structured and providing a foundation for teaching language from scratch. The books are well balanced with different language aspects, introducing grammar, enhancing oral competence, providing authentic reading and listening material and plenty of drill/consolidation exercises.
The communicative teaching method implies interactive lessons, where students are encouraged to immediately apply new material to real-life situations. The lessons are not grammar-centered; in fact, the course books introduce just enough of it for essential purposes of understanding and being understood. Students have the opportunity to draw their own grammar patterns and therefore to own the knowledge.
The texts, audio material, and dialogues are authentic and simulate realistic scenarios to transfer language competences into a real-life. The texts and dialogues also serve as a source of information with cultural background, familiarising students with Russian music, history, literature, and traditions. The initial discussion develops with more language tools students are acquiring, enabling students to build, phrase, and advocate for their arguments.
Course books have sufficient and reasonable amount of exercises for anchoring and consolidation of material, and are used as workbooks as well.
This consecutive and coherent course book series is a marvellous and comprehensive tool for a Russian language teacher following the modern communicative approach and teaching mono- and international groups of different sizes and ages as well as individual students.
