I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

association, vocabulary, method of associations, psychology, psycholinguistics, response, stimulus, experiment

Nowadays, the search for an efficient and truly effective method of studying the material, which was begun by methodologists many years ago, continues up to now. Modern approaches to the assimilation of lexical units require not only classical methods of memorization, but also interaction with the psychological aspect in the form of conscious and unconscious. This work is topical because modern pedagogy needs solutions to problems concerning work with foreign students. One of these difficulties is insufficient vocabulary. The free associative experiment is aimed to help foreigners to understand Russian vocabulary through the prism of their cultural differences. The article reveals the main idea of the free associative experiment, both in general and in its linguistic aspect, and discusses its use in the study of the vocabulary of the Russian language in the Spanish-speaking audience. The authors have also independently carried out a free associative experiment with the students from Latin America, which showed and proved not only the importance of perception of the linguistic material, but also the need to take into account such aspects as age, gender, academic and geographical characteristics of the students, because they form a special perception of language, which is an integral part of culture.

Яниева Кристина Дмитриевна – студент-магистрант кафедры русского языка и методики его преподавания Российского университета дружбы народов им. Патриса Лумумбы, г. Москва, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7345-8114, yakristinieva@mail.ru

Митрофанова Ирина Игоревна – кандидат социологических наук, доцент кафедры русского языка и методики его преподавания Российского университета дружбы народов им. Патриса Лумумбы, г. Москва, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0532-8841, mitrofanovaii@inbox.ru