New technologies for teaching Russian to a Vietnamese audience

The article considers current issues of education in Vietnam, as well as problems of studying the Russian language and literature in this country. It analyzes the attitude of the Vietnamese to the Russian language in different years. It indicates the influence of Russian literature on the formation and development of Vietnamese national culture and literature. A list of works of Russian literature included in the school and university programs of Vietnam is given. The material of an experimental study of the study of Nikolai Gogol’s poem “Dead Souls” in the Vietnamese audience ispresented. By means of questionnaires and conversations, the features of reading and understanding by Vietnamese students in the translated version of this famous work of Russian literature are revealed. The result of the questionnaire of Vietnamese students on the understanding of Gogol’s poem “Dead Souls” shows that this work is interesting to them, although difficult to read. Readers experienced certain difficulties associated with the peculiarities of the language and style of the author’s narration, the peculiarities of the era, the specifics of the Russian worldview, etc.  The article proposes the author’s methodology for analyzing the Gogol’s “Dead Souls” by NEFU professor S.M. Petrova, using modern technologies for teaching Russian to foreigners. Practical recommendations for conducting classes on studying this work of Russian literature in a Vietnamese audience are presented.  It is recommended to get acquainted with the era and personality of the Russian writer, a graphic-symbolic analysis of the artistic text is shown based on the use of practice-oriented traditions in the field of semiotics, mnemonics, ergonomics. Adapted texts of chapters of Gogol’s poem and methodological tasks related to the development of oral coherent speech, expansion of the vocabulary of foreigners, improvement of speaking and storytelling skills are given.