Abstract:Abstract-This article studies the problems of teaching lexis and reading to foreign students with the help of ethnicallyfocused language material. It provides examples of toponymic names of Volgograd Oblast, which have emerged due to various intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors, provides linguistical, historical and cultural information, demonstrates how toponymic meaning aspects represent the mental component and distinguishes ethnocultural information as a system of knowledge, perception and evaluatio… Show more
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