Master 2024/2025

Language Interference: Theory and Practice

Type: Compulsory course (Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective)

Area of studies: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics

Delivered by: School of Linguistics

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 1 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Anastasia Sergeyevna Vyrenkova

Master’s programme: Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course explores the concept of language interference in different approaches to Second Language Acquisition. As part of the course, students will learn how typological differences, language input, and proficiency in foreign languages affect language transfer strategies. The course also gives students the opportunity to work with real language data obtained from students of Russian as a foreign language, including pre-processing skills for automatic GEC tasks.