THE ROLE AND PLACE OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE IN LEARNING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Keywords:
native language, Russian as a foreign language, foreign speakersAbstract
This article addresses the role of the native language in learning Russian as a foreign language. The author describes the role attributed to the native
language by the modern methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the training process or preparation thereto. It is concluded that addressing the native or an intermediate language is methodologically justified in the process of learning Russian as a foreign language if it helps to increase the efficiency of the training process.
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