Keyword: «the russian language»

The article focuses on the ways of developing soft skills while teaching a foreign language to international students whose purpose is to pass a Russian as a foreign language test. The authors analyze the ways of organizing a foreign language class with different groups of learners: those attending preparato-ry courses before entering University, those doing a language course as part of their education in a summer school, and those aiming at passing the Russian language exam before getting a license to work in the Russian Federation. The authors show that in a class where foreign language acquisition and teaching students soft skills go hand in hand, both language proficiency and learning the new cultural code come naturally.

The article discusses the concept of "patriotism", describes some forms of patriotic work during in the classes of «The Russian language and culture of speech» and after classes.

The meaning of the inner form of the word for establishing a conceptual link between polydenotative members of the synonymous row with the dominant отличный on the one hand and – on the other – the members with the common denotation of a positive assessment is considered in the article. The methods of conceptualization of positive evaluation are highlited through the investigation