Recognition of Linguistic Characteristics of Bilingual Students when Teaching Japanese at North-Eastern Federal University

Abstract

The article justifies the need to take into account the linguistic characteristics of bilingual students from among the indigenous inhabitants of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) when teaching the Japanese language at the North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. The purpose of this study is to analyze the linguistic phenomena of the Japanese and Yakut languages for the effective development of foreign language communicative competence of students. The author of the study revealed a contradiction at the methodological level between the need to train specialists with knowledge of the Japanese language from among the indigenous peoples of Yakutia and the lack of a methodology that takes into account the linguistic characteristics of bilingual students. The research methods were theoretical and empirical methods. Due to the fact that the key feature of teaching foreign languages in the Republic is bilingualism of students, the author of the article analyzed scientific literature on the topic of bilingualism, justified the need to take into account bilingualism of students when teaching Japanese in the national Republic. Difficulties arising in the study of the Japanese language are considered. As a result of the study, the grammatical, lexical and phonetic phenomena of the Japanese language, which have similarities in the Yakut language, have been identified, it is proposed to explain these phenomena in the process of teaching the Japanese language based on the Yakut language.