OPPORTUNITIES FOR BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE IN LITERATURE WHEN LEARNING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE STUDY OF THE READING EXPERIENCE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS)

The article examines the reader's portrait of foreign students, presented in the form of a study of reading in their native language (first of all) and the interpretation of this study. Background knowledge of literature, which is in a hided form in the mind, can become the basis not only for intercultural dialogue, but also for learning the Russian language, since background knowledge in General is one of the conditions for the development of communicative competence in teaching a foreign language. Training is usually based on background knowledge, which, in turn, can become the basis for a dialogue of cultures, motivation for learning a foreign language, exchange of cultural (in particular, reading) experience and experience of emotional experiences. The literature on these positions has immeasurable internal resources. The paper identifies works of foreign literature - points of intersection of cultural codes of different peoples. The article describes the course of the research, justifies the choice of works of world literature for the survey, analyzes its results and gives recommendations on the use of readers ' experience in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The survey included respondents from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and Australia.