Literature in teaching Russian to foreign students

Abstract

The article raises the issue that has appeared in the process of teaching the Russian language to foreign students. The authors advance a theory of the exhaustion of the auxiliary function of literature in the educational process. The use of fiction only as illustrations does not help to learn the language deeper. Moreover this utilitarian approach to Russian literature does not break barriers in intercultural communication.

Keywords

• fiction
• text
• teaching Russian as a foreign language
• foreigners
• meaning
• sense