Keyword: «sociocultural adaptation»

The article presents the results of the study. The urgency of studying the psychological characteristics of foreign students who study in Russian universities is justified. The differences of socio-cultural peculiarities in different countries complicate the already difficult period of yesterday's schoolchildren adaptation to the University. Adaptation, existential fulfillment of students was studied in groups of students from Russia and from abroad. The results showed that there was no reliable difference between these groups of students in the parameters of social and cultural adaptation, as well as its existential fulfillment components: self-distancing, self-transcendence, freedom, responsibility.

The article deals with aspects of text work at the lessons of regional studies and Russian as a foreign language, which are tools for foreign students` socio-cultural adapting. The author exposes the educational material about the disease and the city in which a foreigner is studying as a necessary element of socio-cultural adaptation. We describe the experience of guide development of regional studies, aimed at forming regional communicative competence. An example of text analysis containing the regional study information is given.

The article touches upon some aspects of working with the texts of folk tales at the lessons of Russian as a foreign language. For foreign students such texts may be considered as one of the instruments of sociocultural adaptation as well as the material for getting lexical and grammar skills. The example of working with the text of the Russian foik tale ‘The Magic Swan Geese’ is analysed by the author. It may be used at the beginning of teaching Russian as a foreign language.