III International Olympiad on Russian As Foreign Language

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III International Olympiad on Russian as Foreign Language

2012/2013 academic year

Held in honour of Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer and scriptwriter

Provision

for the first round

Research supervisor of the project on RFL: Lydia Vladimirovna Yenina,assistant professor at the Chair of Rhetorics and Stylistics of USU Philology Department, Candidate of philological sciences (Ekaterinburg, Russia).

TheOlympiad on Russian as a Foreign Language objectives:

to sustain positive motivation for studying Russian;
todevelopstudents’ creativity, erudition, and the so-called ‘feel for language’;

to develop the ability of independent analysis of a linguistic material and of application of linguistic knowledge, skills and competencies in non-standard environment;

totrain students’practical perception of the language,to formbroad and up-to-date views on learning the Russian language.

Theaimofthefirstround: to assess the knowledge of Russianas a Foreign Language(hereinafter RFL)among comprehensive school students from different countries. Toselectthe most well-prepared students for participation in the second (final) round of the Olympiad.

Participants of the first round.

The first round of the Olympiad on RFL is by far the most democratic and accessible. All comprehensive school students from different countries who are willing to participate can do it without any preliminaries.

Content of tasks:

OlympiadtaskscomprisetwolevelsofproficiencyintheRussianlanguage: elementary, basic, intermediate, whichcorrespondtoАII, ВI[*]levelsofEuropeansystemoflevelsofforeignlanguageproficiency. Content and types of tasks for each level are specified in the requirements for developing Olympiad tasks for each round.

Olympiad tasks on RFL correspond to the academic level of students of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 forms; they consist of 4 parts and comprise 25 tasks.

Part 1 – 1 - 5 close-ended testtasksfor selecting one answer out of four or five, marked 1 point each.

Part 2 - 5 close-ended testtasksfor selecting three answers out of six, marked 3 points each.

Part 3 – 10 tasks, five for matching and five for sequencing tasks with 5 elements, marked 5 points.

Part 4 – 5 most difficult open-ended test tasks requiring a short answer, marked 6 points each.

Time allotment for completing the Olympiad tasks of the first round is 75 minutes (1 hourand 15 minutes).Tasksofthefirstroundcorrespondtotheelementaryandintermediate levelsanddifferin level of complexity in accordance with B. Blum’s classification.

Procedure

The first round is held at schools. The school administration voluntarily notifies the teaching staff, students and their parents of terms of conducting the first round of the Olympiad on RFL, and registers on the website. The registration guide is to be found on The teacher responsible for the Olympiad procedures lodges an application for a preliminary round on the website in the school cabinet.

To lodge an application for participation in the RFL Olympiad preliminary round, one is to visit the school’s cabinet on the website. Select the “Olympiad List” section – “Russian as a Foreign Language” – “I Round” – “Application for Participation in Preliminary Round”.

The following margins are to be filled: class, name, surname. Date of birth is indicated only in case there are people of the same surname in the list of participants. For the rest of the students, this margin is not compulsory. Opposite to the subject “Russian as a Foreign Langage”, a check mark is to be put. There exists an opportunity to edit the application before the start of the first round. Eachparticipantis assigned his/her individual code at lodging an application.This code can be used as a password for entering the testing complex for each participant.

On the first day of the first round, an access to the Testing Complex ON-LINE is provided in the cabinet. Achoicebetweenon-line (viacomputer) andcombined (computerandprinted) test variants is offered.For the on-line testing the participants do contest tasks via computers. For the combined version we suggest supplying the participants with paper copies of tests.

The participants shall complete their work in a classroom and enter their answers in a special form. After the Olympiad the teacher collects their works and enters them in a computer. The list of results is formed in the cabinet on the Internet as soon as the testing is over.

The timeframe of first round

The first round is held on 21 - 30 January 2013.Applications andtarget contributionsfor participation in the first round are received till 18 January 2013.

The Organizing Committee is ready to help schools with information in case any difficulties with lodging an application and ON-LINE testing should arise. A school has a right to independently distribute dates and time of holding the Olympiad between parallel classes within the specified timeframe.

Summing up the results and awarding

According to the results of the first round, the participants whose score exceeds 55 points advance to the final round.

The final protocol of the first round shall be placed on later than 15 February 2013,theOlympiad Organizing Committee shall send layouts of Certificates of Participants of the Olympiad first round to the e-mails of the participating schools.The certificates are awarded to ALL participants of the Olympiad first round.

Amount and order of distribution of voluntary target contributions

Thechargeforparticipationinthefirstrounddependsonthenumberof the participants of the Olympiad.

First round
less than 5 participants / 5 euro
5 – 15 participants / 3euro
more than 15 participants / 2 euro

Contact information:

SupervisorofRFLOlympiad: EkaterinaSavushkina

Tel.: +7(343) 377-65-06

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[*]Whilelodginganapplication, note that A2 level corresponds to the 1st form, B1 level corresponds to the 2nd form.