Linguodidactic Profiling in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language to Labour Migrants Anzhela Dolzhikova 1 & Victoria Kurilenko 2 & Yulia Biryukova 2 & Natalia Rumyantseva 3 & Ekaterina Kulikova 4 & Elena Tumakova 5 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 Abstract The main purpose of this exploratory study is to work out and describe the labour migrant’ s linguodidactic profile, to verify its didactic capacity of an instrument of pedagogic measurement of social, cognitive, ethnocultural, educational and other significant characteristics of migrants affecting the efficiency of the Russian language training courses. The interdisciplinary methodology of the research integrates principles and approaches of methods for teaching Russian as a foreign language, interdidactics, migration sociolology, culturology, anthropology and cognitive science. The Russian language training courses have a strong potential for linguocultural adaptation and integration of labour migrants because the language functions as a depository and translator of the hosting nation’ s moral norms and values. The effectiveness of the Russian language training course depends upon the strict consideration of all significant characteristics of its addressees, i.e. labour migrants. These characteristics were iden- tified and then integrated into the linguodidactic profile which was taken as a basis for the language training course. The didactic capacity of the linguodidactic profile was proved on the example of language teaching and testing of migrants from the Republic Int. Migration & Integration https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-017-0531-3 * Anzhela Dolzhikova authorsrudn@gmail.com Victoria Kurilenko vbkurilenko@gmail.com 1 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6, Moscow, Russia 117198 2 Russian Language Department at the Faculty of Medicine, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia 3 Russian Language Department of Russian Language and Basic Sciences Faculty, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia 4 Language Teaching and Testing of Migrants Centre, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia 5 Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia