Teaching Culture-Oriented Linguistics for Students Learning the Russian Language as Foreign at the Initial Stage

Abstract

The article is devoted to the methodological organization of classes of Russian as a foreign language. The content of the educational literature for foreign students who study Russian at the A2 level, and the requirements of the educational standard for Russian as a foreign language, presented by the Russian state testing system for citizens of foreign countries are considered. An important component of the lessons of Russian as a foreign language is working with a text, which allows you to form the ability to perceive the meaning of the whole text, develop reading and speaking skills, enrich students' knowledge about the country of the language being studied. The text on the city of Yelets is used as a material for the lesson. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that it is proposed to develop a lesson that is aimed at foreign students studying Russian at a basic level. The novelty of the study is that it is based on the regional material. The text, intended for the cultural adaptation of foreign students, describes a familiar place for them - the city of Yelets, in which students live and receive education, so material that takes into account personal interest allows us to intensify the cognitive activity of students. The use of the regional component in the RFL classes motivates the study of the language and contributes to its successful development, as language sources are included that reflect the specifics of the Lipetsk Region and raise interest among foreigners. The materials of the practical lesson are designed to acquaint students with the cultural traditions and lifestyle of the residents of Yelets. A complex of pretext, text and posttext exercises aimed at improving speech skills is proposed. Pre-text tasks are aimed at removing lexical and grammatical difficulties that may arise when working with the text, text tasks - to form a communicative attitude for reading, post-text - to check the understanding of what is read.