Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language in the Turkmen Audience in the Distance Learning Condition

The authors consider the experience of using distance learning in teaching Russian as a foreign language for a Turkmen audience, its advantages and disadvantages in order to effectively implement the potential of modern educational technologies and their further improvement. Particular attention in the work is given to both the problems that the students faced in the transition to a new training format for them, as well as to the ways of solving them, inherent in the Turkmen group. The article describes the features of the approach to learning the language, due to the ethnocultural and mental features of this mono-ethnic audience. This article is relevant due to the need to constantly search for effective technologies for teaching Russian as a foreign language, to improve teaching methods, as well as to solve modern challenges related to COVID-19 and faced not only by the educational systems in Russia, but also in other countries affected by the pandemic. Based on observations and analysis of the experience of distance learning in Russian as a foreign language in Turkmen groups, the authors come to the conclusion that it is possible to introduce distance learning as part of full-time education and offer the most effective, in their opinion, forms of using distance technologies in the educational process.