CULTURE-SPECIFIC VOCABULARY OF NEWS TEXTS IN THE ASPECT OF PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TEACHING OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TO FOREIGN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to substantiating the importance and describing the potential of studying the culture-specific vocabulary of news texts of modern Russian media in the practice of professionally oriented teaching of the Russian language to foreign students studying in the field of International Relations. The article presents results of an analysis of vocabulary of news reports, on the basis of which a typology of professionally significant culture-specific lexical units is built, taking into account the level of expression of the cultural context in them. The work substantiates the expediency, defines the main directions of studying culture-specific lexical units of denotative, connotative, associative and metaphorical levels in order to develop lexical skills, obtain background knowledge relevant to the sphere of international relations, and form ideas about the ideological and value-worldview orientations of modern Russian society. As a result, it is stated that working with the culture-specific vocabulary of news texts within the framework of a professionally oriented training course of the Russian language contributes to the formation of specialized foreign language competence of foreign students studying in the field of International Relations.