Child with "Bulgaria", "I love theater" signs/ Photo credit: edu.ru
The international summer school of the Russian language was held in the Bulgarian city of Obzor, the Russian Education website reports. It was called Theater as a model for the preservation of the Russian language.
About sixty children interested in performing arts and Russian language gathered in Bulgaria. Among the participants were children aged 7 to 14 years old from Belgium, Germany, the United States, France, Spain and other countries.
The project is implemented with the participation of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Schoolchildren increased their language proficiency in a unique format of theater performance.
The creators of the program are convinced that the techniques of theatrical pedagogy is one of the best options for maintaining interest in the language when comes to teaching bilingual kids.
Participants were divided into two age groups. Games for children based on Russian fairy tales were organized for young children. The method helped the development of free speech skills and improved their ability to interpret a literary word and the ability to write and speak Russian.
Older schoolchildren were given more serious tasks: a linguistic analysis of the dramatic works of Russian children's classics, interactive games on linguistic parallels. They acted as screenwriters and directors of the group project. The result of the work were videos based on the fairy tale Geese-Swans and the fable Dragonfly and Ant.
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