Keyword: «teaching foreign students»

The article deals with the role of the multicultural educational environment of a university in teaching cross-cultural competence. Ethnopsychological and ethnolinguistic peculiarities of Turkmen students are being studied. The urgency of the problem under study is determined by current educational tendencies.

The article studies new forms of mentoring and peculiarities of their use in multicultural academic environment. The aim of the article is to summarize the experience of using various forms of mentoring while working with foreign students and applicants. The authors suggest introducing universal holistic program of mentoring foreign students for quicker and more productive professional development of foreign students in Russian universities.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the demand for higher technical education in modern Russia by foreign citizens has increased significantly. As a result, many universities have faced the problem of mass training of applicants in the context of learning Russian as a foreign language. The influx of students from Asia and Africa requires interpretation and optimization of Russian language teaching. In order to make such work productive, it is necessary to take into account not only the opinion of the teachers, but also the point of view of the students. The aim of the study is to identify the most important difficulties for students that arise in the process of learning Russian in technical universities (taking into account the opinions of foreign students). To find the opinion of students, a survey was conducted among graduates of the Omsk Automobile and Tank Engineering Institute (37 cadets from 17 foreign countries) and Omsk State Transport University (11 students from China). The approaches of methodologists and students to this issue do not coincide. Teachers claim that the greatest difficulties are associated with the motivation to study the Russian language and with learning specialized "technical" topics and the grammar of the scientific style. As the results of the survey showed, the opinions of students and cadets have their specific features. For students, the most problematic is the process of cultural adaptation and getting used to the process of studying at the university. At the same time, problems in mastering the Russian language are noted by students regularly and do not depend on the topics and courses within which this occurs. In addition, a dependence was revealed between students' opinions on the success of their studies and the opportunity to learn Russian as a foreign language in the preparatory course. The theoretical significance is related to the ranking of difficulties in learning Russian as a foreign language. The practical significance is due to the identification of the most difficult components of successful engineering education for foreign citizens in our country (considering the opinions of both teachers and students).