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Keyword: «communication sphere»

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The purpose of the work is to inform teachers of the Russian language as a foreign language with the specifics of the everyday communication sphere of foreign military personnel - cadets studying in Russian universities. An actual direction in the communicative method of teaching foreign languages is the studying of communication areas and the creation of teaching materials, according to the specifics of the studied area. Identifying the specifics of the students ’communication sphere - the most typical situations and language, as well as taking into account their communicative needs, makes learning more motivated and effective. The article is devoted to the description of the everyday sphere of communication of foreign military personnel – cadets studying in Russian universities. Cadets studying Russian as a foreign language, unlike civilian students, in parallel with the educational process, serve and carry out daily military duties, which requires them to know a slightly different language material. Research methods: content analysis of the text of the Charter of the internal service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation; monitoring the process of everyday communication within the framework of a military educational institution; questioning of cadets and officers of several higher military educational institutions. The everyday communication situations that took place between foreign cadets, officers and employees of the university, native Russian speakers were used as the material of the study. The study resulted in systematization of everyday communication situations and identification of those that caused the greatest difficulties for foreign military personnel. The identified situations may be combined into topic groups and used in classes on the Russian language as a foreign language in military universities. The theoretical results of the study are of interest to teachers working in military universities, practical results may be used for working out methodological materials for the formation of professionally oriented communicative competence of foreign military personnel.