1st Edition
Dynamic Teaching of Russian Games and Gamification of Learning
Part I: Pedagogy of Teaching Language with Games and Gamification
1. Teaching Language with Games: Practice, Research, and Cohesion of Pedagogy
Svetlana V. Nuss
2. Gamification and Game-Based Learning: An Overview and Application to Language Teaching
Vita V. Kogan
Part II: Impacting Speaking and Beyond: Up the Teaching Game
3. Using Mingling Games with Beginner Learners
Daria Kotelnikova and Elena Bogomolova
4. Trivia Games for Student-Centered Learning in the Russian Language Classroom
Maria Khotimsky
Part III: Building Language Structures Through Games
5. The Use of Authentic Games in Teaching L2 Russian Grammar
Anna Leontyeva and Ekaterina Schnittke
6. Learning Motion Verbs Through a Board Game: Insights from a Cognitive Linguistics Perspective
Maria Bondarenko
7. Game-Based Learning in L2 Russian Classrooms: Interaction, Multimodality, and Practical Suggestions
Olesia Pavlenko and Dmitrii Pastushenkov
Part IV: Winning Creative Language at Creative Play
8. Ludic Acts of Language Acquisition: Role, Dialogue, and Stage for L2 Russian Oral Proficiency
Susanna Weygandt
9. "I like Brown, Eyes, Potatoes:" Gamified poetry for beginners
Polina Peremitina
10. Playing at conversation: Chatbots in Russian Language Teaching
Daria Dornicheva and Sandra Birzer
Part V: Are the Games Worth the Candle?
11. Teaching Language with Games: Are the Games Worth the Candle? Reflections on practice and future directions
Vita V. Kogan and Svetlana V. Nuss
Biography
Svetlana V. Nuss is an editor and teacher educator affiliated with the University of Alaska and Grand Canyon University, USA.
Vita V. Kogan is an assistant professor in Russian at University College London, UK.






