TEST CHECKING THE LEVEL OF FORMATION OF WORD-FORMING SKILLS IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (LEVEL B1)
The article is devoted to the problems of forming word-formation skills of foreign students studying Russian at the I certification level (B1). Teaching word formation is an integral part of the process of forming communicative competence, which is recognized in the methodology of teaching foreign languages as the main goal of learning when implementing a personal-activity approach and using a consciously practical method. The analysis of the regulatory documents on Russian as a foreign language helped to identify existing problems and prospects for further research. To determine the initial level of formation of word-formation skills in foreign students, a stating experiment was conducted, specifically for which test tasks were developed. The test tasks were aimed at testing the knowledge of the main word-formation models and the values of the most productive word-formation formants for a particular part of speech in the Russian language and the ability to conduct morphemic and word-formation analysis of lexical units of different parts of speech. The results of diagnostic testing revealed a relatively low level of formation of word-forming skills in Russian as a foreign language. It is necessary to pay attention to the need to improve the methods of formation and development of word-formation skills necessary to determine the lexical meaning of verbs based on their word-formation and morphemic analysis, followed by the extraction of prefixes as a derivational formant. The expediency of searching for more effective methods and techniques for forming word-formation skills in foreign students who master the Russian language at the I certification level is proved.