ИСТИНА

A profound and undying love for foreign languages has always been a distinctive characteristic of Russians and Russian social life. Consequently, FLT in this country has been based on the deep-rooted and cherished traditions. These traditions are both ever-working and outdated, efficient and inefficient, brilliant and absurd. The present-day situation with teaching language issues – grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation – stems from historically and culturally determined traditions of this country. It goes without saying that there are other reasons for various difficulties in teaching the most basic language issues under consideration which are internationally shared. They are also to be mentioned but a close attention is to be paid to Russian national (or native?) problems.