FORMATION OF INTEREST IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AT A UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Promotion of the Russian language on the world stage and its attractiveness in the modern world is one of the priority areas. It requires the teacher to constantly search for new teaching methods that will ensure a steady interest of students in understanding the culture and language of the Russian people. The article discusses a popular method of teaching Russian as a foreign language by attracting works of Russian literature. The material for the study is the experience of working at a provincial pedagogical university with foreign students studying in the profile “Russian as a foreign language”. The discipline “History of literature of the countries of the studied language” makes it possible to introduce a number of techniques that allow to track the dynamics of growth of motivation to study in the profile. The teaching practice uses the method of comparative analysis of works of Russian classic with the works of Turkmen writers.