MEANS OF NATIONAL CONCEPTS PRESENTATION AT THE LESSONS OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The importance of including the presentation of the concepts of Russian mentality in the course of Russian as a Foreign Language became clear after the detailed description of the concepts at the turn of the century. In recent years, courses and articles were made available that offer interpretation of the units of the national consciousness. They all imply that a teacher unfolds rows of syntagmatic and paradigmatic liaisons of the concept in question before a student, so that the latter has formed in his mind a specifically structured set of ideas. We believe that there is another way. The teacher should be prepared to provide a brief but succinct reference on mental units characterizing Russian mentality to the student at an appropriate occasion. It is important to choose a situation where the importance of mental preferences is obvious. In such a case the student will be convinced in the necessity of the additional information offered to him. Otherwise, the study of concepts will be possible only in a narrow philological audience with students for whom Russian is an object of study, rather than a tool of effective communication.