The co-organizers were the Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication of the Southern Federal University and the International Institute of Interdisciplinary Education and Ibero-American Studies of the Southern Federal University, as well as foreign partner universities: J. Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University, Gomel State University. Francisca Skaryna, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Tunis Institute of Higher Humanities.

The meeting was attended by about 70 teachers and undergraduates from Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. The meeting was held in a mixed format using “Yandex platform. The teleconference" Experienced teachers and novice teachers shared effective methods of teaching theoretical and practical linguistic disciplines to foreign students.

"Many colleagues have joined us today, and I hope that the round table will become a truly vibrant cultural space where we will exchange experiences and come up with new ideas for further cooperation. I think we're going to have an extremely difficult but exciting conversation. Russian will be discussed not just about methodology, but about the challenges that exist today: how to teach theoretical linguistics to foreigners interested in Russian philology, how to improve the effectiveness of teaching to those for whom Russian is not native, how to organize classes in mixed groups, how the digital environment and artificial intelligence are changing our work, whether we are losing At the same time, it is a living word," Anna Dmitrova, Director of the SFedU Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication, opened the meeting.

Natalia Karpovskaya, the Rector's Plenipotentiary representative in the countries of the Ibero-American area, Director of the SFedU International Institute of Interdisciplinary Education and Ibero-American Studies, emphasized in her welcoming speech that the multinational composition of the participants proves the global nature of the existing challenges. Among the key problems, she named the search for methods of broadcasting to foreign students the content of such language categories that are absent in their native languages.

"There is another problem — the presence of mixed groups, where both native speakers and foreigners find themselves in the same audience. We have a lot to share with each other in the art of finding balance. Generations are changing, students are changing, their views, knowledge, psychological and cognitive characteristics. At the same time, we continue to develop techniques and look for new technological tools and approaches. Let today's discussion become not just an exchange of opinions, but a starting point for new joint textbooks, teaching aids and interuniversity online courses," Natalia Karpovskaya continued.

The members of the program committee of the round table Evgenia Zhuravleva, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan) and Randa Zayani– Chairman of the Tunisian Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, lecturer and inspector, spoke about the existence of common linguistic and didactic problems facing teachers from different countries and the urgent need to understand them. Russian Language at the Tunisian Ministry of Education, Professor, member of the Presidium of the MAPRYAL (Tunisian Republic).

Then the participants moved on to a discussion on pre-formulated problems. The meeting was chaired by Lyudmila Savenkova (Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication) and Zoya Chatoeva (Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyn).

The first aspect of the discussion was the difficulties of foreign speakers mastering theoretical linguistic disciplines. Tatiana Ulyanova (Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication) identified three key barriers: cognitive (lack of reliance on the native language), terminological (difference in conceptual framework) and motivational (gap between academic requirements and professional expectations of non-Russian speakers).

Andrey Panteleev and Igor Nefedov, Elena Serdyukova, Olga Kholomeenko (all from Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication) and Evgenia Zhuravleva (Kazakhstan) devoted their speeches to issues related to individual theoretical disciplines. They noted the need to take into account the typological features of students' native languages, their systemic differences from the foreign language being mastered, as well as the importance of taking into account the inextricable link between language and culture.

Further discussion went in three directions. In particular, the methods of teaching linguistic disciplines in conditions of mixed groups, including native speakers and foreigners, were considered. Irina Savchenkova (ernational Institute of Interdisciplinary Education and Ibero-American Studies), Margarita Yereshchenko and Alexandra Kolesnikova (Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication), Jakhon Yuldashev (Uzbekistan), Zoya Chatoeva, Saltanat Bokova (Kyrgyzstan), Zemfira Grechukhina, Lilia Kiseleva, Tatiana Lukoyanova (Astrakhan) and others participated in the discussion.

Special attention was paid to the search for effective methods of teaching a foreign language in the modern educational process. The main speakers here were Randa Zayani (Tunisian Republic), Tatiana Buryachenko (Kyrgyzstan), Zinaida Rejuk (International Institute of Interdisciplinary Education and Ibero-American Studies), Wang Yi (China). The discussion was attended by Armine Grigoryan, Evgenia Popkova, Victoria Khnaeva, Irina Grudanova, Damira Davletbakova (Kyrgyzstan).

Multimedia tools in foreign language teaching were also considered. Gulmira Osmonalieva (Kyrgyzstan), Anna Poloyan, Anastasia Nazarova (both Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication), Volga Slavina (Belarus) and others provided a variety of aspects here.

Summing up the results of the round table, the participants noted the undoubted usefulness of the discussion and the opportunity to enrich themselves with new methodological techniques. A wish was expressed to hold such a meeting annually. The materials of the round table will be published in an electronic collection and posted on the NEB. eLIBRARY.RU