Common Slavic Vocabulary in Teaching Russian Language for Foreign Slavic Audience

Abstract

The article deals with the lexical aspect of teaching the Russian language to native speakers of related Slavic languages, taking into account the characteristics of Slavic audience (the need to overcome interlingual interference and the possibility of using positive transfer arising from the presence of proto-Slavic lexical foundations, the processes of interlingual convergence and divergence associated with it). The proto-Slavic lexical foundations includes words that are similar in sound and spelling in related Slavic languages, derived from the same etymon. Differences in the semantic structure of such language units are the source of numerous lexical errors in the speech of students from Slavic countries. The main purpose of the article is to propose new approaches to the presentation and semantization of common Slavic vocabulary in the lessons of Russian as a non-Slavic language at an advanced stage of education. The novelty of the research lies in the methodical work with the language units of the proto-Slavic lexical foundations, aimed at increasing the efficiency of the process of teaching Russian as a non-Slavic language, finding ways to present and semantize lexical units with common Slavic roots that implement the principles of conscientiousness in learning and taking into account the native language. The material of the study is the language units of the Proto-Slavic lexical foundations, texts containing such units. Research methods include analysis, synthesis, pedagogical modeling. The proposed approaches activate the processes of mastering Russian vocabulary in a Slavic audience.