TEACHING THE RUSSIAN CASE SYSTEM IN THE TURKISH CLASSROOM: THE PROBLEM OF INTERFERENCE AND WAYS TO ADDRESS IT
The article is devoted to one of the important grammar topics of the Russian language-the teaching of the case system to Turkish students. Mastery and correct usage of the cases is of great importance in the initial stage of instruction of Russian as a foreign language, insofar as grammatical competence is an integral part of communicative competence, which must be formed in foreign students for the realization of successful communication in Russian. The goal of this study is the identification of the difficulties Turkish students have in the study of the Russian case system with respect to interlingual interference, and the search for ways of forming grammatical competence. To achieve the goal of this study, an experiment was conducted at the Russian Language and Culture Center «RUSMER» (Ankara), in which 52 students speaking Russian at the Elementary (A1) and Basic (A2) levels participated. In the course of the experiment and pedagogical observation, the most persistent mistakes in the use of case forms emerged, and the difficulties students experience when studying this topic were identified. To systematize typical errors and their further prevention, the case systems of the Russian and Turkish languages were analyzed with the help of a comparative-contrastive method, and methodological recommendations are given that will help to prevent possible mistakes in the process of studying the Russian cases.