«Speaking Like Russians»: on Issue of Timeliness of Teaching Discursive Words to Foreign Linguistic Students

The article presents an attempt to substantiate the use of the term «discursive words» in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It analyses the content of this term and its correlation with the terms traditionally used in the practice of teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, such as particles, modal particles, modal words, phraseological structures. The article also provides an analysis of fragments of educational-methodical complexes and textbooks on stylistics for the foreign students, which are devoted to linguistic phenomena and can have a discourse use; it describes the results of the methodical experiment carried out with students of a linguistic profile and identifies difficulties of reading the authentic authors texts with discursive units that transmit authors intentions and estimates. The article offers a variant of systematic work on this topic with foreign students of the linguistic profile in terms of theoretical and practical aspects of education; it emphasizes the urgency of further study of discursive words in the aspect of Russian as a Foreign Language because of their practical importance for the foreign students.