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The Foreign Language School ZNATOK has been giving its students the joy of communication since 1999. The company having been established, we immediately went on to establish high standards for foreign language teaching. We take pride in our high credibility status and value all our students, as it is their successes and achievements that gain our company a good reputation.
Our Students
Every individual who is keen to be a successful learner of Russian is welcome to apply for Russian classes whatever his language standard is. But you should be aware of the fact that it is very important for us to know your age, your mother tongue and even your habits. We do our utmost to adjust teaching methods to your personality and to tailor them to your needs. Offering Russian classes to all potential clients, we see every student’s comfort as one of our top priorities.
Our Russian Tutors
It is not easy to make it to the teaching staff of the Foreign Language School. We might draw the line under this, if it weren’t for our desire to list the strengths of our tutors who are really up their jobs
- competence
Every Russian tutor in the School is a highly qualified linguist. Being native speakers of Russian, they know how to elicit positive feedback as to using this language. The tutors on our staff are specialists from prestigious Kiev and Ukrainian institutions of higher learning. In addition to academic qualifications and lists of published work, they do possess some other important qualities, namely:
- experience
Several years’ experience of teaching Russian to foreigners helps our tutors to establish good working relations with their students, which is highly conducive to success and good performance.
- creativity
Our tutors use the teaching methods adopted by the School. Nevertheless these methods do not restrict their creative potentials and approaches. Each tutor has his own idea of how to make a lesson a vivid and memorable experience. Be ready to use your creative potential in the classroom as well.
- insight
This is hardly disputable that there is a clear-cut difference between learning Russian academically and gaining an actual working command of it. It is possible to learn the usage of grammar forms and vocabulary without having acquired the ability to understand, which keeps any communication alive. Only he who is able to understand can teach effective communication skills. As to our tutors, they are up to this task
Methodology Used by the School’s Tutors
Individualised communicatively oriented methods rely on the latest findings about human ability to intensify learning process in the situations relevant to the student’s experience. These methods incorporate the concepts of the integrative theory of speech and those of the cognitive theory of emotions developed by I. Shekhter. These theories regularly illuminated and explained in bulky journals, our students can do with very limited exposure to dull scholastic subject matter. As stated above, the methodology we use is communicative and aimed at teaching effective communication skills. In order to learn something, you need either to hear it twenty times or to see it eight times or to do it yourself just a couple of times. Therefore, our students are exposed to communication in Russian from the very first minute of their class. While communicating, they acquire new vocabulary, grammar forms and stylistic rules of this language.
We proceed from the point that Russian is not to be learned for the sake of learning. It is to be done to identify one’s talents and to achieve personal and intellectual growth. You achieve the stated objectives by using language skills as a daily medium for attaining greater intellect and flexibility as well as for changing into a brighter personality. This is the very essence of individualised and personalised approaches.
The School’s Mission
Our purpose is to teach students how to express their thoughts, feelings and desires in fluent Russian. If we succeed in this, Russian will taste sweet and will be free of any bitterness and frustration. Our dream is to provide barrier-free communication. So, mission is hardly a high-flown way of referring to our dream, isn’t’ it?
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