48734 Teaching Methodology in Higher Education Вопросы методики преподавания в вузе 2227-8591 20 The French teaching as a second foreign language in the Russian higher education institutes and the reform of French orthography Практическое преподавание французского языка как иностранного в российской высшей школе и реформа французской орфографии Artemieva Irina N. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University 30 12 2013 2 16 146 152

The article deals with the recent reform of French orthography developed by the Supreme Council of the French language in accordance with the French Academy which approved in 1990, methods and time of their realization, the reaction of the French world (teachers, book publishers and ordinary French native speakers) and the reform related problems of the French language teaching, as a second foreign language, in Russian higher education institutions.

 Reform of French orthography French language methods of teaching foreign languages new courses the Supreme Council of the French language book publishing