Developing Financial Literacy Skills in International Students at the Pre-University stage in the Russian University

Russian as a means of business communication in situations thematically related to the formation of financial communication, in the aspect of teaching Russian as a foreign language, is the object of research. The purpose of the study is to describe the features of the lexical, grammatical and syntactic means of the Russian language as part of the intended business discourse of foreign students with pre–university training, whose level of proficiency in Russian meets the program requirements of the certification levels: elementary, (EU), basic (TBU/A-2) and the first certification level (TRKI-1/B-1). Russian as a foreign language (RCT) teaching methods for special purposes at the initial and advanced stages of RCT teaching (based on the material of journalistic texts of economic orientation), demonstrate the practice-oriented orientation of the entire Russian language course, the successful mastery of which allows non-Russian speakers to master a foreign language as a means of intercultural and business communication. The reflection of the financial part of economic discourse in curricula and materials makes it possible to expand the vocabulary of foreigners both in terms of mastering financial terminology and in mastering common vocabulary, as well as to form the image of Russia as a financial power among foreign students from the first days of their stay in our country. The appeal to economic topics and authentic materials at the first stages of language learning in a foreign audience contributes to the sustained interest of listeners in learning the language as a real means of communication.