Рedagogical Aspects of Teaching Russian Culture to Foreign Students
This article discusses the pedagogical aspects of teaching Russian culture to foreign students. It emphasizes the need to encourage foreign students to acquire the cultural studies competence, since the task of the teacher is not only the speech, but also formation of linguistic and cultural competencies. Foreign students who study Russian language should also learn the Russian culture, literature, history, and socio-cultural traditions. The absence of this background knowledge will be a serious obstacle in the adaptation of foreigners in the Russian speaking environments. The formation of cultural competencies remain relevant and promising. The article formulates the concept of the cultural, including the knowledge of Russian speech etiquette; names of objects and phenomena of the traditional Russian way of life, traditions, national games, rites and customs; oral traditions; the works of writers, artists, architects, musicians, sculptors, etc.; Russian non-verbal communication (facial expressions, gestures). It presents methodical recommendations on the organization of work on integrated lessons on the Russian culture with foreign students. It also proposed a transcript of lessons for students who speak the Russian language at level B1-B2 on the theme: «Landscape in Russian painting. The image of nature in spring picture K.F. Yuon’s “The March Sun”. On the lesson, the teacher introduces students to the landscape genre in the Russian painting, to the biography and works of famous Russian artist K.F. Yuon. We developed tasks to improve oral monologic and dialogic speech (creating a descriptive text, expressions to express one’s position in relation to the picture), vocabulary (art vocabulary), the use of grammatical structures (full and shortened adjectives and participles, synonyms), using the picture’s description as an example. We propose methods and techniques of forming the cultural competence through the study of the Russian culture.