Three aspects of working on a sentence (from experience of teaching Russian as a non-native language)

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The article examines the content of the work on the sentence in the process of teaching Russian as a non-native language. Despite the availability of methodological works on the study of syntax in the Russian language school course, we believe that insufficient attention is paid to the sentence as a syntactic unit. We propose to consider a sentence as a complex, multidimensional linguistic and speech unit. In our opinion, the central link in the process of learning a sentence in Russian lessons is mastering the mechanism of a sentence construction. At the same time, we note that this work should begin as early as at the stage of studying morphology to be later consolidated in syntax lessons. As the core ones in educational practices, we propose to highlight three aspects of working on the sentence, in particular, when working on language acquisition: 1) syntactic connections of words, 2) word order, 3) intonation. In our opinion, not all these aspects are implemented in practice. Each of the three aspects has its own specifics; at the same time, they are organically interconnected. This relationship contributed to the emergence of the idea of multidimensional (complex) teaching of the Russian language based on a syntax. In this methodology, the sentence is considered to be a component of a coherent text, which implies the use of the text as the main didactic material when teaching Russian as a non-native language.