IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL-CULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF ARAB STUDENTS INTO ACCOUNT IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (RFL) AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF LEARNING
The article deals with some issues associated with national-cultural and ethnopsychological peculiarities of Arab students which are taken into consideration in teaching RFL. The article also contains some methods contributing to the efficiency of mastering Russian by Arab students and stimulating their interest and motivation for the Russian language. The author gives some examples of communicative peculiarities and characteristics of speech etiquette, national behavior and some pieces of advice for teachers of RFL. The article also offers forms and methods of introducing a new material for Arab students. The author estimates the role of a RFL teacher.