Galina Boichiyk

This article presents the specific aspects of teaching Russian business speech etiquette for English-speaking students. Undoubtedly speech etiquette takes on enormous importance in achieving the communicative goal of the speaker or a person who writes. Using as an example of writing a business letter of request and making various exercises, the author shows possible ways of overcoming the difficulties connected with Russian business speech etiquette for English-speaking students. Practice of teaching Russian as foreign language shows that one of the difficulties of foreigners in mastering business writing is to express adequate statement of inquiry. Therefore, it is necessary to study this genre of business letters for foreign audience. These facts indicate the relevance of the study conducted by the author. Thus the purpose of the paper is to examine such concepts as speech etiquette and business speech etiquette, as well as the associated common difficulties encountered by English-speaking students in mastering their art of writing business letters in Russian language. During the study theoretical methods were used such as an analysis of the methodological and linguistic works of researchers, as well as the method of a pedagogical experiment. Tutorial materials for teaching foreign students were developed in the process of the pedagogical experiment implementation. At the same time, the modeling approach played an important role in the course, which made it possible to make changes and optimize the process of teaching foreigners the peculiarities of business writing communication in Russia. As a result of the study, the author proposes an algorithm for presentation, analysis and creation of the text of a business letter by foreign students, allowing them to develop effectively communicative competence in the field of business writing communication in Russian language. In these circumstances it is emphasized that the students are to study Russian business speech etiquette through the aspect of intercultural communication, which encourages overcoming the possible conflict situations, facilitates the attainment of mutual understanding and more harmonious relations between communicants. The article may have practical interest for teachers of foreign languages, as well as for all those researchers, who take up the problems of teaching Russian for business communication in the context of intercultural communication.