Teaching Arab schoolchildren Russian etiquette formulas: linguistic and culturological aspect
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Teaching Russian as a foreign language is aimed at the formation of students’ communicative competence. Speech etiquette with its formulas as culture-intensive language units is one of the components of communicative competence. Therefore, teaching speech etiquette is to consider linguistic-cultural aspect. It is important to show students how the linguistic cultures of the studied and the native language interact. The aim of the study is to present a set of exercises for teaching Russian speech etiquette to Arabic-speaking schoolchildren in the linguistic-cultural aspect at the initial stage of learning Russian as a foreign language. The main methods of this study are theoretical analysis, methodological design, and scientific and methodological generalization. The study involved Lebanese schoolchildren aged 15 and older who studied Russian at the initial stage at the Open Education Center of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation in the Lebanese Republic (Anab) in 2024. In the study, the features of the linguistic-cultural aspect were revealed, such as elements of cultural and etymological commentary, comparison of linguistic and extra-linguistic realities of the native and studied languages, correlation of etiquette formulas in Russian and native languages. The scientific novelty of the article is the proposed system of exercises considering dialogue etiquette phases (greeting, gratitude, address and saying good-bye) and the linguistic-cultural features of these formulas in Russian and Arabic. The linguistic-cultural aspect of etiquette formulas at the first stage of language learning is an important motivating factor.
Source: Russian language studies
Institution: Moscow State Pedagogical University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415521822
