Ekaterina Protassova

University of Helsinki | HY · Department of Modern Languages

The table of contents ( sommaire) has been uploaded here in two parts for the book Family Language Policies "Haque & F. Le Lièvre (2024).

Introduction This research investigates resilience and lived experiences of transnational Russophone families amidst global changes, with a focus on the intricate dynamics of communities spread across borders. The study emphasizes the importance of considering individual migrant experiences in understanding language learning and integration. We exp...

This article presents a multifaceted portrait of immigrants to Germany from the post-Soviet states. The article traces the paths of two families over the course almost of a third of a century after immigration, focusing on language use and integration into the new environment. In-depth interviews conducted at various stages of the integration proce...

Introduction The Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had a significant impact on the Russian-speaking identity, reformulating existing linguistic and cultural boundaries and shaping Russian speakers’ self-perception and vision of the world. We focus on families with children who are trying to balance their inner and outer life in order to stabi...

This is the Final Table of Contents for the upcoming bilingual volume on Family language policies.

The geographic position of Finland as Russia’s neighbour and the resultant historical, economic, and cultural ties mean that the Russian language and the Russian-speaking minority occupy an exceptional and complex position in Finland, difficult to compare with that of other countries. Russian speakers are the largest linguistic minority in Finland,...

This volume presents a comprehensive examination of Russian-speaking migrants outside metropolitan areas. Beyond analysing interview transcripts, contributors scrutinize pragmalinguistic dimensions, investigating the dynamics between speakers and listeners, discerning explicit and implicit intentions, and unravelling potential meanings in specific...

This article explores linguistic and cultural ties in the informal Russian-speaking communities outside the Former Soviet Union (FSU). We employ qualitative methods, such as internet discourse monitoring, ethnographic observations, content and thematic analysis, and language assessments to examine a complex interplay between language, migration, an...

The Russian-speaking space plays an important role for diasporans: starting a business, founding a company, seeking legal advice, or high-quality medical treatment is always more convenient when participants understand the nuances of communication in a common language. It facilitates the understanding of highly specialized fields such as legislatio...

В статье ставится вопрос о том, может ли русский язык рассматриваться как плюрицентрический в связи с тем, что он используется в различных странах и регионах мира, где существуют варианты русского языка. В России, Беларуси, Казахстане, Киргизии и других странах русский язык используется как официальный язык государственных органов и учреждений, одн...

Food preparation and consumption is an essential part of culture. Leaving their homeland and finding themselves in a society with eating habits different from theirs, migrants face a dilemma of adapting their diets to those customary in their new place of residence or trying to maintain their food habits. Relying on the ethnographic method and appl...

Российские немцы из Казахстана, или Russlanddeutsche, — это этнические немцы, которые жили в России, а затем в Казахстане до эмиграции в Германию. Многие представители старшего поколения выросли, говоря на немецком диалекте, отличном от стандартного немецкого, или на региональной разновидности русского языка. Языковая интеграция все еще может быть...

This volume serves as a significant contribution to the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism, offering a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the material culture of Russian-speaking migrants. While Western scholars have explored themes concerning the interplay of materiality with emotions and language use, there remains a no...

With this textbook by Larissa Aronin, those who prepare a course on multilingualism do not need to search for other sources, because it is comprehensive, concise, and up to date. In the modern world, full of minorities, refugees and migrants, it should be a must-read for every schoolteacher and student. Being an overview of the latest fundamental i...

The process of using foreign-language insertions in the Russian text is examined using books written by five female authors (A. Marinina, L. Romanovskaya, E. Rozhdestvenskaya, G. Shcherbakova, and T. Ustinova). Some aspects of women’s prose are discussed, as well as the appropriateness of including into it other-language words and expressions. This...

Russian is a language widely spoken worldwide. While it is one of the official languages of the United Nations, it is still predominantly spoken in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union, although about 30 million speakers abroad have a near-native proficiency in Russian, and about 70 million speak it as a foreign language. However, th...

With this textbook by Larissa Aronin, those who prepare a course on multilingualism do not need to search for other sources, because it is comprehensive, concise, and up to date. In the modern world, full of minorities, refugees and migrants, it should be a must-read for every schoolteacher and student. Being an overview of the latest fundamental i...

Russian-speaking immigrants in Finland, like many other immigrants in the world, are reluctant to express their opinions on politics. They do not consider themselves competent enough to have the right to make a judgment in a situation in which they have not taken part and which they cannot view completely on their own. Gradually, immigrants who wer...

In the history of developmental psychology, views on what the essence of childhood is have changed many times. The main variables guiding children’s development are usually considered to be ideas about the useful and harmful, about the necessary and sufficient, and the historical difference between these concepts is what exactly stands behind them....

The article presents a review of the book by Igor Engelevich Klyukanov, specialist in intercultural communication. The reviewer notes that the author gives in his monograph a qualitative overview of latest works in the field under consideration and illuminates them in line with the chosen theory.

This essay explores how multicultural Russian-speaking immigrants reflect about their old and newly adapted food habits. These reflections go beyond descriptions of diets and principles of nutrition but reveal to what extent newcomers are ready to participate in the culture of the majority, how they evaluate their past, which tastes make them nosta...

In several countries Russian is spoken by a considerable percentage of the population. The Russian language has been influenced by a number of different languages from throughout the world. As a result, it is crucial to look into how the first language (L1) of a family interacts with the language of the environmentin early life and how this affects...

This article provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic situation in three Asian countries, India, Japan, and South Korea, which are relatively less known as countries where the Russian language is used. The aim of the study is to assess the significance of the Russian language in these countries Russian-speaking diasporas, business sph...

When switching to online teaching, the question arises about the feasibility, methods and form of transposing existing teaching materials into the Internet and creating new ones. The aim of the study is to show what opportunities electronic educational environment ViLLE, developed in Finland, has for teaching Russian as a foreign language and as a...

The purpose of this article is to help language teachers at all levels of education to understand in depth problems posed by linguistic superdiversity. Based on the study of scholarly literature, documents of educational bodies and the authors experience in language teaching in different countries, the article answers the question of how the teachi...

COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. A battery of tools fo...

The recent global spread of the Russian language is not solely due to ideological, but also to economic and practical reasons. As a lingua franca, it can be found in different regions of the world. Teaching Russian under new contexts demands alternative strategies and new thinking. Russian is still widespread in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and is the...

The purpose of this article is to give a quick overview of intercultural tendencies in certain Russian regions’ modern linguistic landscapes: where they can be found, why languages other than Russian are used, what the purpose of their use is, and who uses them. The material for this study includes several thousand photos taken between 2010 and 201...

Multilingualism, superdiversity, and the abundance of language contacts place new demands on language teachers, who must consider each student’s linguistic biography, family language policies, and cultural practices in order to keep up with their growth in a specific school vs. university subject. Many more languages are becoming pluricentric as th...

Russian, as a pluricentric language, demonstrates differences in pronunciation, lexis, syntactical structures, and regional specificity of grammar deviations. The imposition of a norm, which is difficult even in the metropolis, is hardly possible in the diaspora, where host countries’ realities have a strong impact on the Russian language spoken ou...

The questions of superdiversity, multiple identities and practices, language policy, multilingualism, plurilingualism, intercultural, minority and immigrants’ education in the pre-primary and primary classrooms are crucial for the current situation of the Russian language abroad. Teachers have to take into account linguistic and artistic resources...

Emotions are a sensitive theme in all languages, and researchers seek to understand and describe them cross-linguistically and according to the national traditions. The ‘emotional turn’ in the human sciences has touched on the educational sphere in an interesting way, where the traditional Soviet-Russian approach was replaced by the westernized ter...

An inseparable part of human life, emotions were neglected in the academic discourse in the West for a long time, because scholars juxtaposed them with thought and reason. Yet educational research reveals that emotions are manifestations of high order intelligence and stimulate goal achievement, memory, and motivation in knowledge acquisition. Emot...

The Russian language is confronted with a variety of other languages from around the world on the individual level. Russian is spoken by a large proportion of the population in some countries. As a result, it is necessary to investigate how the home / family or the first language (L1) interacts with the language of the environment in early childhoo...

The purpose of this article is to give a quick overview of intercultural tendencies in certain Russian regions’ modern linguistic landscapes: where they can be found, why languages other than Russian are used, what the purpose of their use is, and who uses them. The material for this study includes several thousand photos taken between 2010 and 201...

Russian-speaking people in Finland make up less than two percent of the population, but are quite visible in its composition. Among them are descendants of so-called “old Russians” who lived here before the revolution, Finnish returnees and Ingermanland Finns, spouses of Finnish citizens, persons who came to work or study. Although the acquisition...

Teaching Russian as a foreign language outside the nation might still be oriented towards the norm and conventions of contemporary metropolitan Russian, but in the minority situation, which emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and massive migrations, teaching should absorb the newly developed local lexis and formulate the rules reflect...

In the world in which transnational networking has become a norm, and communication choices are made in real time, and often under pressure, ease of interaction wins. Based on the critical study of documents, interviews, participant observations, linguistic landscape analysis, the study discusses the situation with the Russian language in some Slav...

The study combines analysis of social interaction between bilingual RussianGerman speakers competent in the two languages to different degrees with assessment of the levels of oral and written proficiency of the young Russian Germans who came as small children to Germany or were born here. This is a part of a larger longitudinal project dedicated t...

The article is dedicated to the multilingualism among the students of the Kazakh National al-Farabi University. The demographic statistics shows decrease in the numbers of Russian-speakers and the growth in the numbers of young speakers of Central Asian regional languages. The attitudes towards multilingualism change. The future teachers will be tr...

В статье представлены результаты исследования, в котором анализируется отношение русскоязычных родителей в Финляндии к языковому образованию своих детей. В основу исследования было положено анкетирование 90 русскоязычных родителей в Финляндии. Респонденты ответили на вопросы о том, из каких регионов России и по какой причине они переехали в Финлянд...

The study presented here has three goals: : (1) to identify types of errors in the noun inflectional morphology in Russian as a heritage language among Russian-speaking adolescents in Israel (n=11), the United States (n=11), Finland (n=14), and Germany (n=9), (2) to compare errors in speech production between these groups , and (3) to investigate t...

Emerging as an important field in the 21st century, family language policy brings forth core challenges of language ideologies, practices, maintenance, shifts, losses and transmission at the micro-level unit of the society. This special, first-ever bilingual French-English volume illustrates a range of issues exploring immigrant and transnational f...

In retrospect, the experience of a Finnish-Russian bilingual day care center in Helsinki shows that educational policy, political situation, and composition of the children’s groups and staff are factors influencing the flexible linguistic strategies of the teachers and their attitudes toward children with various family linguistic backgrounds (Fin...

The article considers how the pre-primary and primary institutions abroad put their aims in collaboration with parents in the changing situation of children’s upbringing and education. The main contents of such activity is to inform, to consult, to involve them into the educational process and extra-curricular occupations, as well as to help famili...

Russian-speakers in Finland are the country’s largest (and growing) immigrant group. Despite their ethnic diversity and their willingness to integrate in Finnish society, they are often framed in Finnish discourse as “representatives” of Russia with dual loyalties. They are also being simultaneously developed, by different political agents, as both...

Parents of bilingual children are the main agents of the early development of their languages during the first socialization, while day care and school catch up during the second socialization. Parents want to have an expert advice from the pedagogical staff and try to influence and control the process of language acquisition. The article deals wit...

This article examines the commodification of Russian in Finland, where recent decades have seen a sharp rise in the size of the Russian-speaking population and the number of tourists from Russia. We particularly consider the use of Russian in the fields of traditional and medical tourism, education, and culture - all of them areas where Russian tou...

The article provides preliminary evidence supporting the hypothesis that the Russian language in Kazakhstan has acquired autonomy from the “global” Russian language. This conclusion provides the grounds for a discussion of Russian as a pluricentric language. Such a discussion has implications well beyond the sphere of linguistics, as it can provide...

Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic se...

The present article is dedicated to a very distinct and fascinating branch of pragmatics that was elaborated in Germany in the second half of the 20th century. It is mostly connected with the names of Konrad Ehlich and Jochen Rehbein. Functional Pragmatics (FP) was based on the ideas of Karl Bьhler and was advanced through the efforts of Ludger Hof...

The article discusses the situation of Udmurt and Chuvash in education on the basis of legal texts, statistical data, interviews to parents, teachers and school officials and schoolchildren pooling. Although Udmurt and Chuvash are being taught as a subject in many schools where the language of instruction is Russian, the results are not satisfying....

The languages of Russia are a valuable resource of knowledge about the life of the indigenous peoples and a challenge for all the specialists in linguistic typology. As is widely known, they are undergoing the process of loss, mainly because the quantity of speakers diminishes and the quality of their speech deteriorates. The article discusses the...

Many educators and parents believe that successful multilingualism is a valuable resource for any society. This is not only because of its role in the successful integration of migrants, but also because of its cognitive potential and the opportunity that it provides to enrich the society’s economic, intellectual and cultural life. The main aim of...

Many educators and parents believe that successful multilingualism is a valuable resource for any society. This is not only because of its role in the successful integration of migrants, but also because of its cognitive potential and the opportunity that it provides to enrich the society's economic, intellectual and cultural life. The main aim of...

The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a multination...

The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a multination...

Originating from many different sources, Russian as a heritage language in Finland displays a spectrum of developmental tendencies: both attrition and maintenance can be observed in various degrees. The Finnish educational system allows for the organization of bilingual pre-schools and schools when there are sufficient numbers of potential pupils....

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquis...

During the transitional period from being part of the Soviet Union, with Russian as the official state language, to an independent state within the European Union, with special language policies supporting minority languages, Latvia has developed reasonable principles of bilingual education. Nevertheless, a lot of work still needs to be done to imp...

More and more adults nowadays transfer their children to foreign countries and cultures, where the children's natural desire to play involves them immediately in communication with other children. Thus children start to interact with each other without any common language. The subjects of our investigation are 20 Russian children aged from 2;4 to 9...

Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, is multicultural. writers and poets. The city is also the history of the people who lived here in the past and who visit every day. Russian is the most spoken foreign language in Helsinki. This article examines how language is Russian, experience this city and for them, and what emotions and associations Simil...