The ways of the pedagogic support of the foreign students of the preparatory department of the Russian universities

The article deals with the types of the difficulties, that the foreign students of the preparatory departments of the Russian universities face (linguistic, subject, national and personal, interpersonal). There is given the characteristics of these kinds of the difficulties, depending on the level of the development of the professional and linguistic competence of the foreign student. The authors describe the ways of the pedagogic support that provides overcoming these kinds of the difficulties.