Specification of spelling literacy development among foreign children at the primary stage of Russian language education in a polyethnic educational environment

The issue of organizing the learning process taking into account the individual characteristics of students is getting more and more important in the conditions of a polyethnic educational space. We draw attention to the little-studied initial stage of mastering spelling by foreign children, who find themselves in unequal educational conditions associated with the need to perceive the material at the same level with native speakers, the same way of assessing the level of knowledge. The aim of the study is to describe the main linguistic difficulties of acquiring spelling skills at the initial stage of learning Russian by foreign students, and to determine methodic solutions for organizing Russian language lessons in a primary general polyethnic school. We analyze the main difficulties that arise among foreign language children when acquiring spelling material, consider pedagogical tools and methods for developing spelling skills, and offers organizational and methodic recommendations for the development of spelling literacy among foreign students. It is concluded that there is a need for purposeful work on the development of foreign students’ spelling literacy at the initial stage of education in a general school in a polyethnic educational environment, taking into account the peculiarities of the perception of educational material by them, the organization of systemic additional preliminary work aimed at the conscious mastering of the grammatical categories of the Russian language.

foreign students, spelling literacy, acquiring spelling skills, polyethnic educational environment