LANGUAGE CLICHÉS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of language clichés in the practice of teaching foreign languages and, in particular, Russian as a foreign language. In the course of the study, the relevant features of language clichés were identified, including those that distinguish them from phraseological units; the classification of language clichés by the functions of language expressions is made; and the methodology for them in relation to a foreign audience is described. In addition, it was found that the use of clichés as the most stable reproducible linguistic terms in a foreign language, helps to avoid errors associated with the wrong lexical collocation, and also contributes to a more correct expression of thoughts for a given language which in turn makes the communication more effective and responsive to the communicative tasks of its participants. In this regard, language clichés should be paid a special attention, both by researchers and teachers, in this case working with foreigners. It should be kept in mind that there might be no such fixed phrases in the language of foreign students, or they can have a different structure, which means that in many times students cannot independently recognize and purposefully memorize such units; that is why all the necessary semantic work with such language clichés should be carried out in class.