Implementing the principle of co-study of language and culture (to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Professor Liya Alexandrovna Khodyakova)

The paper analyses L. A. Khodyakova’s contribution to methodology and emphasises the fundamental role of the principle of co-studying language and culture within the framework of cultural approach to teaching Russian and developing students’ speech. The study focuses on the ways to implement the above-mentioned principle in school practice proposed by L. A. Khodyakova as well as on the methods of linguistic and cultural text analysis and analytical-synthetic conversation. A lesson plan built on an excerpt from the novel «War and Peace» by L. N. Tolstoy and in compliance with L. A. Khodyakova’s recommendations is given as an illustration.