title: The animate/inanimate category in teaching Russian as a foreign language: The results of experimental work
abstract: The article presents the results of the development and implementation of a methodological system of tasks aimed to develop grammatical competence of international students on the basis of the animate/inanimate category, which is a unique linguistic phenomenon ‘built’ on the opposition of ‘the animate’ to ‘the inanimate’. The study of this grammatical category in the linguodidactic aspect has a great potential due to the specifics of the category under consideration, as it requires not only the 
journal: Philology and Culture