PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TRAINING IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS AT PRE-UNIVERSITY PREPARATION STAGE

Abstract

One of the most important tasks at the stage of pre-university education of foreign students is the preparation for study at Russian higher educational institutions. As a result, the formation of speech skills and abilities necessary to achieve cognitive and communicative goals in the educational and professional sphere of communication comes forward as the main task. The stage of pre-university training for students entering RUDN (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia) in order to acquire a specialty begins at the Faculty of the Russian Language and General Subjects. The Russian language plays a special role in preparing foreign students for study at Russian universities, since all subjects are taught in Russian. With this in mind, foreign students are taught Russian as well as general subjects necessary for further education in higher educational institutions during the period of one year. Upon completion of pre-university training, each applicant must be fluent in Russian at level B1.