The Ascertaining Stage of Diagnostics of the Specificity of the Sociocultural Characteristics of Russian Speakers by Foreign Students
The article presents the results of a questionnaire survey and diagnostics to identify the specificity of the socio-cultural characteristics of Russian speakers, which must be taken into account when teach- 79 ing Russian as a foreign language (RFL). The analysis of a survey of Russian-speaking citizens and foreigners for the peculiarities of the Russian character is given, important elements of Russian culture for different linguistic societies are revealed, the results of using the obtained data in teaching RFL are presented.