THE ROLE OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN THE FORMATION OF LINGUISTIC-CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

The most recent research on methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language recognizes importance of supporting students' advanced language skills with socio-cultural competence as a state-of-the-art pre-requisite for successful mastering a foreign language. One of the reasons for communicative failures in the context of intercultural interaction is the low level of linguistic and cultural competence of foreign phones. The study of units, possessing an ethno-cultural component, including phraseological units and aphorisms, can, on the one hand, increase the level of Russian speech culture, and, on the other hand, create obstacles in intercultural communication, in case of incompetent or inappropriate use of phraseological units. The purpose of this article is to summarize the observations over the mastering of Russian phraseological units in the speech of foreign students of the advanced stage of training. With this purpose, we examined the use of idiomatic units in the poetic texts of Silver Age studied by foreign students-philologists; described the possible structural and semantic transformation of idiomatic expressions, and also made assumption that the use of phraseological units in the Russian speech is assessed differently by representatives of Chinese, German and Romanian culture.