Keyword: «work of fiction»

The article focuses on the problems of teaching 1st year students of linguistics to analyze fiction. The author considers the possibilities of developing students’ reading skills and skills of analyzing a short story by introducing a series of tasks and assignments aimed at finding, processing and interpreting the information in a work of fiction. The author provides examples of tasks that serve the purpose of developing students’ communicative skills, teaching them to do research on the problem in question and present the results of their research in class. Tasks that presuppose in-depth analysis of the cultural and historical background of a story are essential as they give students a better understanding of the historical and cultural context of the events described in a work of fiction and of the author’s philosophical conception. Such tasks are significant for pre-translation analysis.