INTEGRATED STUDY OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND HISTORY IN SCHOOLS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

Abstract

This article focuses on promoting the Russian language, culture, and history in the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Currently, one of the most interesting trends in foreign language education is content and language integrated learning, for instance, of history and Russian. This type of instruction deepens and broadens knowledge in related fields. Such approach is particularly important for non-Slavic audiences, particularly Serbian-speaking students. Surveys indicate that Russian culture and history are among the motivational factors for studying Russian as a foreign language among Serbian school children. The results of the survey on Russian language and history described in the article provide justification for the implementation of content and language integrated learning. The article also describes conditions and possibilities for implementing integrated teaching of history and Russian language with the grouping of metacognitive skills, the development of which is important and actual for content and language integrated learning.