The article highlights the problem of the necessity of organizing methodological work on the prevention of lexical errors in the written speech of foreign students with advanced level of Russian. The authors present an analysis of lexical errors made by students of Chinese Philology in written Russian and propose a system of work on mastering the skill of using word collocations based on the material used for preparing for writing a training essay which helps to avoide mistakes in word usage and improve the students’ writing skills.

There is analyzed the communicative potential of the signs of the indirect derivative nomination with the linguocultural marker “Paris”. In particular, phrasegraphically fixed units are compared to speech units that actualize the stereotypic notions of Russian language native speakers about Paris.