Znaczenie nauczania ortografii i interpunkcji w budowaniu kompetencji językowej studentów neofilologii (na przykładzie języka rosyjskiego)

Knowledge of foreign languages plays an important role in the competence structure of a university graduate. Equipping students and graduates with effective communicative competences is the basis for the development of social cooperation skills which allow them to understand and interpret cultural, social, economic and political phenomena and processes. The article is an attempt to discuss the place of spelling and punctuation in the process of teaching and learning communication in a foreign language. The placement of these issues accounts for their importance in the process of teaching and learning Russian as well as confirming the need for their presence in the teaching process from the very beginning. The research material consists of syllabuses of the course Practical Russian Language Teaching implemented in the first year of undergraduate studies in Russian philology. The subject of the analysis will be spelling and punctuation issues as elements of integrated Russian language teaching in higher education.