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NEW! Why study Russian?
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Russian Made All the Difference - A Career in Sport
Russian Made All the Difference - Understanding the Arts
Russian Made all the Difference - A Russian Odyssey
Russian Made all the Difference - The Study of Russian in College
Russian Made all the Difference - A Russian Journey
Russian Made all the Difference - The Study of Russian in School
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NEWS!
Dr Sarah Smyth, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies (TCD), was awarded the Pushkin Medal by President Medvedev for her contribution to the promotion of Russian language and culture in the world. This medal is awarded annually by Presidential decree to ten people from the fields of culture or education. The award ceremony was held in the Kremlin palace on 4th November, the Russian national holiday. In her speech , Sarah made reference to encouraging new developments in Irish-Russian relations, and looked forward to both sides building on newly strengthened foundations. In the current year other visitors to Russia from Ireland include Bono, on the occasion of a U2 concert in Moscow, and President McAleese, who accompanied a trade and education mission in September. In addition to Sarah's work in Trinity and further afield, she has been a member of the management committee of the Post-Primary Languages Initiative since its inception and has made an enormous contribution to the work of introducing Russian in our schools.
Russian in our schools
The Post-Primary Languages Initiative presently employs 10 part-time teachers of Russian to teach a TY module in 25 schools in Dublin, Offaly, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, and Donegal. This module began in 2005 with just 100 students taking a 10 week pilot module in the subject and has since expanded so that there are now more than 500 students each year able to access basic Russian language skills. Last year we undertook an evaluation of Russian among TY students taking it, among TY coordinators organising it, and among school management who make key decisions in relation to subject choice in schools. The results of this evaluation showed that it is very difficult to think of introducing Russian as a regular subject in the Senior Cycle curriculum in the context of the current curriculum overload and the historic dependence on French as the usual choice of modern language. We have , however, introduced Russian as an extra-curricular subject for Leaving Cert at the beginning of the current school year .
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Preliminary Findings of a Recent Evaluation of Russian as a TY module
