Challenges in Task Design for Learners of Russian with a Low Level of Proficiency

The goal of this paper is to analyze some of the issues related to task design in Russian on the basis of a pilot study carried out with 19 bilingual Catalanand Spanish-speaking participants. They performed six form-focused tasks targeted at the use of case forms and verbs of movement in Russian. Although some problems in task design were detected, ttest showed that learners improved significantly in the use of the target forms.