FEATURES OF TEACHING FOREIGN STUDENTS RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN POLYETHNIC ENVIRONMENT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN)

Abstract

The article analyzes features of teaching Russian as a foreign language, due to the national and cultural specifics of multi-ethnic Dagestan. The goal of teaching foreign students the Russian language is to prepare competitive specialists, the formation of a tolerant personality, the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, skills for professional communication. The priority direction in the development of methodological knowledge in the field of teaching Russian as a foreign lan- guage is research of an interdisciplinary nature, revealing the ethnopsychological, ethnocultural, linguistic features of foreign students as a subject of the educational process and aimed at finding ways to optimize learning. The authors conclude that when teaching Russian as a foreign language in a multicultural environment, it is necessary to focus not only on standard approaches in the teaching method, but also to organize the educational process in such a way as to not only teach foreign students to use a variety of language tools in different conditions of language communication, but also to prepare them for the effective establishment and maintenance of the necessary social contacts.