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TRAINING CONTEXTUAL GUESS BASED ON WORD-FORMATION ANALYSIS IN THE PROCESS OF INDEPENDENT READING // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 2 (24). P. 56-65

Introduction. The article is devoted to the actual problem of teaching foreign students to read Russian texts using contextual guess on the basis of word formation analysis. It is proposed to teach the formation of contextual guess techniques in accordance with the theory of mental actions, involving the creation of foreign students’ project of independent activity in the course of successive operations, orienting students to the correct understanding of unfamiliar words when reading. Aim and objectives. The purpose of the research is to teach foreign students the peculiarities of Russian word formation, to produce morphemic and word formation analysis for the development of language guesswork. The examples of realization of the system of exercises for development of contextual guess are given. Material and methods. The main method for teaching foreign students the formation of contextual guess is pedagogical experiment, as well as the method of statistical processing of quantitative research results. More than 150 foreign students from different countries participated in the experiment. The morphological and syntactic analysis is used in our research in teaching foreign students the contextual guess: identification of the known part of the word on the basis of the existing experience of language material; selection on the basis of the experience of similar examples of parts of words; recognition of belonging to a certain part of speech; understanding the meaning of the word. Word-forming models on which students can rely when determining the meanings of unfamiliar words in the process of reception to be quite full, common and thematically transparent. Results and discussion. The results showed that the knowledge of foreign students’ language contextual skills successfully helps them in understanding the texts and learning Russian. Conclusion. The authors created a system of training that provides foreign students with the formation of techniques and skills of contextual guesswork based on word-formation analysis. This research proved effectiveness of the developed system for formation of contextual guessing techniques based on word-formation analysis and can be useful in teaching foreign students to read Russian texts.

Keywords: teaching Russian as a foreign language, contextual guess, word-formation analysis, independent reading, step-by-step formation of skills