Interference Errors in the Speech of Hispanic Students Learning Russian Language as Foreign

In the modern world the knowledge of foreign languages is becoming necessary, therefore, methodologists and teachers face a serious task of finding the effective ways of teaching foreign languages including Russian language. In the author's opinion, the process of teaching Russian language will be more productive when analyzing and classifying errors of foreign students. The purpose of the article is to describe and analyze the typical lexico-semantic and grammatical errors of Hispanic students in Russian speech, caused by cross-language interference and also to present ways of their preventing and overcoming. The author came to the conclusion that the most common interference errors are: 1) direct lexical transfer; 2) incorrect selection of the equivalent, when Spanish lexeme has two correlates in Russian language; 3) errors of words coordination; 4) errors of matching and compatibility of words; 5) distortion of the grammatical model due to a literal translation from the native language to the studied language. In our opinion the results of the research can be used in creation nationally-oriented tests and textbooks on Russian as a foreign language.