PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING LITERATURE TO FOREIGN LISTENERS OF PREPARATORY FACULTIES OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES
Actual state tasks in the field of Russian education are directly related to the internationalization of the Russian educational environment, which implies attracting a significant number of foreign students to Russian universities and ensuring their effective adaptation to Russian educational conditions. The achievement of this goal is facilitated by the creation at some Russian universities a preparatory faculties (departments) for foreign citizens, whose tasks include the comprehensive preparation of foreign students for training not only through the study of the Russian language, but also the main subjects within the chosen specialty. So humanitarian students study a number of subjects, including Russian literature. The specifics of the development of this course is not only the need for careful selection of material and the preparation of texts adapted for foreign citizens, but also the study of the language of the specialty, the development of a “sense of language” among students, by studying the language features of works of various genres and periods, immersing them in the general cultural and historical context the creation of literary works of individual periods. The article describes the experience of developing the program and the content of the discipline "Literature" for foreign students of the Preparatory Faculty of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.