Reflection Of Cultural Peculiarities In Teaching Russian As A Foreign Language

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of including socio-cultural component in teaching Russian as a foreign language. Socio-cultural component is considered as a goal, means and the result of foreign students’ motivation to master the Russian language. The purpose of this work is to study the choice of educational aids containing socio - cultural component to create psychological and pedagogical conditions for the development of students’ socio-cultural competence. The paper describes the influence of the environment, the role of the teacher and teaching course content aimed at the formation of students’ socio-cultural competence, as well as the process of social education of migrants in a foreign cultural environment. The result of the research is to develop a special training course that would optimize the processes that contribute to the effective entry of foreigners studying Russian into a new cultural environment and society. The introduction of the training course on the formation of socio-cultural competence in an educational process has shown that the components of the socio-cultural course in teaching Russian as a foreign language help to increase internal motivation, and therefore become more conscious in language acquisition. Russian as a foreign language should have a special role to play in considering and discussing issues that reveal the peculiarities of the Russian mentality and its lifestyle. That is why the issue of developing and implementing appropriate teaching aids and techniques for the formation of students' socio-cultural competence is so urgent.