Sociocultural Knowledge as a Means of Adaptation in a Foreign Language (At the Lessons of Russian Language as a Foreign Language)

Abstract

The article provides a methodological description of a lesson on the discipline "Russian as a foreign language" on socio-cultural topics: "Youth is the future of the planet." This lexical topic is intended for study and discussion by foreign students studying Russian at the basic or first certification level. Depending on the distribution of academic hours for studying the Russian language, this topic can be considered both in the preparatory department and in the 1st or 2nd year. Of course, the topic is fertile enough for discussion at any stage of language learning, however, from the point of view of the socio-cultural adaptation of foreigners, it is advisable to conduct a lesson on such a topic when students acquire sufficient vocabulary, and knowledge of the language reaches a level where the student can ask a question, formulate and argue your point of view. In the methodological development, not only textual material and a system of tasks for the development of speech skills are presented, but also a dictionary of the topic with an optimal set of vocabulary on this topic and a system of grammatical and syntactic exercises. The lexical topic and the entire structure of the lesson allows students not only to exchange opinions, but to look at this problem through the eyes of a Russian-speaking young person, to find common problems for all and ways to solve them.