Keyword: «a folk tale»

The article focuses on the problems of introducing foreign students to the Russian cultural code through studying Russian folk tales. It is shown that understanding the cultural implication of folk tales helps learners to grasp cultural and moral values encoded in the language the nation speaks and get to know the ethnic mentality of the people. The authors define the peculiarities of the Russian folk tale such as the necessary presence of magi things and the usage of colloquial language, repetition, irony, hyperbole, as well as mocking human vices and teaching a moral lesson. They show that Russian folk tales have a good educational potential and give recommendation concerning classroom and extracurricular work with foreign students who study the Russian language and culture.