Promoting national identity: the case of language university students in Russia

The contemporary context for facilitating cultural identification in Russian higher education is problematic with the main challenges an educator encompassing understanding of identity and methodological content guidelines to promote it. study investigates national university students that they reveal course studies at Institute Foreign Languages Moscow City University while doing adapted activities a foreign coursebook. I argue predominantly identify themselves as their reveals complexity intercultural transcultural elements. article proposes knowledge could be expected learn process promoting (an what mean how today's globalized world influence them; constitutes "Russianness" elements other cultures; role language culture play multilanguage identity; can unconscious deeply are influenced by home there might contradictions between say behave) gives examples textbook from approaches perspective. research indicates moment do not feel English class space where identity.