TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO SUBORDINATIVEBILINGUALS
subordinative bilingualism is the first stage in the bilingual development of a person learning a foreign language. Both cognition of the foreign language and communication in it in this stage are mediated by the mother tongue. all thoughts that a student wishes to express in the foreign language are first formulated in the mother tongue and then translated. therefore, students must be taught the technique of transcoding Russian-language content into the foreign language on the basis of orientation in the system of the foreign language. this orientation is based on a special didactic description of the foreign language representing it as a system of categories reflecting essential features of the view of the world of the nation whose language is being mastered. each category must be presented to the learner in the mother tongue in the form of an orientation base ensuring correct execution of transcoding on the material of a specific category. the categorial knowledge obtained by the students must be reinforced by a large amount of textual material that is processed in all types of speech activity.