FORMATION OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCES WHEN STUDYING THE GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THE CASE IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
This article presents the methods of teaching foreign students how to form and use Russian case forms and describes the stages of students’ learning the cases. The current study is becoming more relevant in teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) due to the richness and variety of semantic shades of the Russian case system and variants of case endings as well as to the increase in the number of foreign students and the role of case forms in speech. The knowledge of normative forms of education and the use of Russian case forms is of great importance in communication and presents a great difficulty. When mastering the grammatical category of the case, the linguistic, speech and communicative competences are formed. The linguistic competence is important, since its formation determines the further successful mastering of the Russian case and declension system. The formation of these competences includes three main stages, and at each stage it is important to use the most optimal and effective forms of work. Also important is the sequence of studying case forms, which differs from the traditional linear, familiar to us. In the methodology of teaching RFL, it is common to rely on the communicative principle according to which mastering the cases depends primarily on the frequency of use and functional significance of case forms.