The possibility of using the riddle in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language
The article notes that the riddle as a work of a small folklore genre has recently been actively studied by linguists and that in all languages, the riddle has performed, in addition to magical, pedagogical, educational functions and the function of comprehending the surrounding world since its inception. When comparing Russian, Chinese, German and Yakut riddles, it was found that when creating a riddle in different languages, the same mechanisms of cognition of the outside world are used: metaphor, comparison, epithets, onomatopoeia. It is emphasized that these visual and expressive means give the riddle a special poetry, creates vivid images and paintings in it. The possibility of using riddles in the practice of teaching a foreign language, including Russian as a foreign language, to increase motivation and more successful memorization of vocabulary (names of subjects, adjectives of color, size, verbs of various thematic groups, syntactic constructions, etc.) is described. The prospects of using riddles are outlined not only in the development of speech and familiarization of students with national culture, but also in the methodology of the Russian language as a foreign language.