Organizing Russian as a foreign language teaching in schools in Asia, Africa and Latin America on the basis of a Russian online training package as an education export strategy

Abstract

The aim of the research is to substantiate the high relevance of expanding pre-university Russian language education programs abroad to increase the level of Russian higher education export in terms of boosting demand among young people from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The paper examines the current picture of pre-university forms of Russian teaching abroad and determines the most effective form; investigates the existing conditions for the implementation of this form in Asia, Africa and Latin America and identifies the type of Russian methodological support necessary for its scaling. The scientific novelty of the research lies in defining one of the key conditions for the successful expansion of pre-university Russian language teaching programs abroad that consists in the organization of teaching the subject “Russian language” in foreign schools through the implementation of digital methodological support in the form of a Russian online training package to assist countries that do not have long-term experience in the implementation of Russian as a foreign language training programs. As a result of the research, the prospects of promoting the inclusion of the subject “Russian language” in the programs of foreign schools as a second foreign language in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been substantiated, as this form of education contributes to the effective organization of pre-university Russian language learning and the creation of positive ideas about the scientific and technological development of Russia among schoolchildren, forming their motivation and communication competencies for admission and successful study in Russian universities.