ABOUT SOURCES OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS FOR FOREIGNERS IN RUSSIA: METHODICAL SYSTEM BY N.I. ILMINSKY

The article is devoted to methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It is described in the nineteenth century the system of Russian language training of non-Russian inhabitants of Russia. The creation of a special pedagogical approach in teaching Russian language small Nations was a significant event for schools with a mixed ethnic population of students. This work gives the fundamental principles of learning created by the teacher and translator N. Ilminsky and the procedure of training, are the main teaching methods that examine the requirements and training materials. Separate attention is paid to the analysis of the learning situation of foreigners, prior to the implementation of the system. It is known that in XVI-XVIII centuries did not exist special methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language, all learning was limited to the mechanical learning of the alphabet Church Slavonic language and Church books without translation into the native language of foreigners and schools lacked skilled human resources, which in addition to Russian, and even native language learners, not textbooks, focused on this student category, which according to the authors, has led to the ineffectiveness of training and pushed any desire for learning the Russian language. The authors also talk about the relevance of the described system of training and the positive results that followed from its use in the multinational regions of Russia: total number enrolled in the Russian language increased from million in 1860 to four million in 1900. Overall, the Kazan teacher N. Ilminsky initiated the development of the ideas of some key provisions of the modern methods of Russian as a foreign language/non-native and contributed to the spread of the Russian language among the peoples of Russia.