RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE POST-SOVIET EDUCATIONAL SPACE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA
The report deals with the status of the Russian language as a subject in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that in the new socio-political conditions in which Russian is studied as a second foreign language, in a situation of competition with other languages, the status, goals, objectives, motives for studying, content, approaches to selection, presentation and training have changed material, a methodological concept for building textbooks, which requires reflection and development of a new strategy for teaching the Russian language in the former socialist countries. The methodological basis of the study is based on the principles of teaching the Russian language in a Slavonic environment: the principle of reliance on the native language, the principle of taking into account the first foreign (English) language. The author was also based on methods of statistical analysis, analysis of educational literature, surveys of schoolchildren and teachers. The result of the study is the analysis of the status of the Russian language as a second foreign language, the identification of its specificity in this status, the degree of demand in school practice, the motives for studying it in school, and on the basis of this, the development of requirements for educational literature. Keywords: Russian as a Slavonic language, second foreign language, aims, principles, motivation, textbooks