Authors’ names:
- Anna V. Fedoseeva – Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
The article presents the results of a study conducted among foreign students who speak Russian at levels B1+ and native Russian speakers. The aim of the study was to identify and group the most frequent ways of expressing negative assessment in Russian. The material of this study comprised written evaluation statements made by foreigners and native speakers of the Russian language, obtained during the survey. The study was conducted using the methods of questioning, description, and comparative analysis. The study involved 85 respondents, including 35 foreigners and 50 native speakers. As a result of the study, the author identified and analyzed eight varieties of expressing negative assessment used by the respondents. The results were examined in terms of frequency and analyzed from a methodological point of view. The data of the questionnaires demonstrates the high frequency of actual nominative subjectivity units in evaluative statements made by both native speakers and foreigners. It is noted that, in contrast to native speakers, foreign students are much less likely to use colloquial syntactic structures with evaluative meanings or to resort to ironic assessments. This led to a conclusion about the need for more special training in using relevant units within practical courses of Russian as a foreign language. The obtained results indicate a number of problematic areas and gaps in the knowledge of subjectivity units by foreign speakers at the intermediate and advanced stages of learning Russian as a foreign language as well as in their ability to use these units in the production of evaluative statements. The main methodological challenges include working with evaluative vocabulary and grammatical structures, expansion of vocabulary, and training students to express various types of assessment accurately and efficiently. Particular attention should be paid to working with texts of various stylistic registers. Further research prospects are associated with a more detailed linguistic analysis of the structure of evaluative statements as well as with the development of methodological materials for teaching ways of expressing subjective assessment.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2023-64-4-192-208 |
| Downloads | 79 |
| Key words | subjectivity units; subjective modality; methodology of teaching; Russian as a foreign language; modern Russian language |