4th Kazan International Linguistic Summit opened at the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication
The event’s unusually long schedule is set to close on 17 December, with 2,000 participants from 20 countries contributing.
Among the co-organizers are the Institute of Language Studies and the Institute of Linguistic Research (both parts of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Russian Academy of Education, Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan, Russian Society of Russian Language and Literature Teachers, International Association of Russian Language and Literature Teachers, Association of Russian Language and Literature Teachers of Russia, and National Association of English Language Teachers of Russia.
Institute Deputy Director Iskander Yarmakeev welcomed the guests at the opening ceremony. He informed that the first event in the schedule is the Language Trends and Methodological Innovations 2023 Festival for language teachers. The festival marks the 80th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Education and the 200th anniversary of famous Russian educator and pedagogical theorist Konstantin Ushinsky.
1 December is set as the day of foreign languages, and 2 December – as the day of Tatar language and literature. Among the scheduled meetings are workshops, practicums, seminars, master classes, and idea fairs.
The ceremony also included an award part for the winners of a pedagogical dictation organized by the Pedagogical Classes project, a national initiative uniting teachers, university academics, students, and high schoolers.
A plenary session then followed with several lectures.
Rimma Nafieva, a Russian language and literature teacher from the village of Staroe Drozhzhanoye in Tatarstan, shared her expectations from the summit, “Apart from Russian language and literature, I also teach an advanced course in pedagogy and psychology for high schoolers. I wrote a curriculum myself, but I also need workbooks and textbooks adapted for high school. I came here to find professional support and borrow experience.”
The next big events of the summit are:
International Student Research Conference on Challenges and Trends of Contemporary Linguistics (7 – 8 December);
International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics as a Key to Dialogue (13 – 15 December).
Special guests, Chairman of the Russian Presidential Council on Russian Language Vladimir Tolstoy and Head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Research of Saint-Petersburg State University Tatyana Chernigovskaya, are expected to deliver speeches on 14 December.