Foreign students’ speech mistakes and reason of their origin

The nature of mistakes and difficulties in learning a foreign language is connected with objective regularities. Today the mistake concept in linguodidactics is perceived with regard to the general problems of quality of education, among which one of the main is the quality of the educational environment. For effective organization of work on prevention of speech mistakes, it is necessary to know their linguistic and psychological nature. The complex structure of the Russian language, and the influence of the native language are the main reasons for sustainability and the frequency of speech mistakes.

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