SPECIFICITY OF TRAINING INDIAN STUDENTS IN RUSSIAN AT PRE-UNIVERSITY LEVEL
The article deals with some issues connected with teaching Russian the Indian medical students with the use of English as an intermediate language at pre-University level. It presents the linguistic, social and cultural image of an Indian student. The author highlights both the problem of foreign students' adaptation in the region of study and the development of their skills in cross-cultural communication. The examples of exercises that facilitate developing foreign students' communicative skills in the educational and professional (medical) spheres are given.