On the problem of learning Russian in the Republic of Tajikistan

the purpose of this article is to identify the central problems related to the study of the Russian language in Tajikistan. The relevance of the work is confirmed by the development of the trend of export of educational services in the practice of Russian higher schools, as well as great interest of Tajik students in obtaining higher education in Russia. The objectives of the study include determining the place and role of the Russian language in the educational system of the state in question, as well as in the social context of the country; outlining a list of the main problems of a didactic and organizational nature observed in the practice of studying the Russian language by Tajik schoolchildren and students; describing fruitful ways and means of overcoming language difficulties of students arriving to receive an education in a Russian university (using the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after P. Lumumba as an example). The paper also presents the results of the entrance testing in Russian as a foreign language for first-year students. Based on the results of the control test, the authors of the article determine the main problematic topics and aspects of the language that turned out to be most frequent in the audience of examinees from the Republic of Tajikistan. The novelty of the study lies in the presentation of experimentally proven data on the level of proficiency in the Russian language by Tajik students, as well as developed recommendations that have pedagogical potential. As a result of the study, it is established that most of the difficulties in mastering the Russian language by students from Tajikistan are associated with the lexical and grammatical side of Russian speech, as well as with the low level of awareness of the engaged about the cultural features of the country of the studied language.

Russian language, education, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russian-Tajik Slavic University, testing