What are common challenges faced by advanced Russian learners

Common challenges faced by advanced Russian learners include:

• Difficulty understanding and using complex grammatical phenomena such as participles, gerunds, and numerals, and mastering grammatical constructions.
• Problems with verb conjugation, especially tense-aspect forms, due to cross-linguistic interference and insufficient understanding of aspectual distinctions.
• Struggles with political or business vocabulary needed for understanding or summarizing specialized texts such as political or business news.
• Inadequate speaking skills and lack of motivation to reach a genuine advanced language proficiency.
• Challenges with phraseological units (idiomatic expressions) including their use with semantic-structural transformations, which requires deep understanding of connotative and pragmatic meanings.
• Issues with collocational competence, which complicates language proficiency and fluency.
• Psychological and socio-cultural barriers such as discomfort speaking in front of others and lack of confidence.

Effective teaching strategies to address these challenges involve a systematic approach including visualization, communicative exercises, game-based learning, and contextualized grammar explanations to help learners apply the language practically in speech and writing. ^{1, 2, 3, 4}

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