THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIARY LANGUAGE AT THE LESSONS OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF A PRESENT-DAY UNIVERSITY
The article considers the feasibility of using the intermediary language in Russian as a foreign language lessons with students of the English department. It is concluded that at the initial stage of training, an intermediary language is necessary: it performs a number of important functions, allows a comparative analysis of language phenomena, and helps to overcome interference. Thus, for a teacher of Russian as a foreign language, good command of the English language becomes a necessary professional skill, and the creation of new nationally oriented teaching aids in Russian as a foreign language is one of the main tasks of the modern methodology of teaching foreign languages. The article also presents the results of a survey of 178 foreign students on the most relevant aspects of the problem being studied.