Detection of communicative adaptation of foreigners in Kazakhstan using associative experiment of psycholinguistic experiment is disclosed in this article. The run of experiment is descripted in details. It includes preparatory stage, making the experiment and post-experiment data processing. Conclusion about the degree of every respondent’s adaptability in Kazakhstan is given in the end of the article.

The article is devoted to one of the unproved questions of the syntax of the Russian language – the functioning of egocentric elements in the monuments of ancient Russian writing of the XI-XIV centuries, in the chronicle genre in particular. It is the diachronic research that will help shed light on the nature, functional and semantic features of egocentric units in modern Russia. The article considers the main features of metatextual units, which, in the author's opinion, clarify the «semantic pattern» of the main text, connect, strengthen and fasten its various elements, and also manifests their role as a kind of explicators of the speaker's position in Old Russian chronicle texts. The presence of metatextual units in the chronicle text confirms the scientific position about the presence of the author's beginning in the works of Old Russian literature, which allows us to identify the author's attitude to the language code of his utterance (speech work). In general, metatextual interpretation is aimed at simplifying the understanding of an object and finding a new element base for its description.

This study examines the problematic issues of improving labor legislation. At the present stage of development of market transformations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as taking into account the entry of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the Eurasian Economic Union, the problems of reforming labor legislation are of crucial importance. This necessitated the emergence of new views on the legal regulation of public relations in the field of the realization of the right to work. In this regard, it becomes urgent to rethink many fundamental provisions of labor law, and among them, not the last place is occupied by the problems of improving labor legislation in various areas of labor relations in a market economy. At the present stage of development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, labor legislation should guarantee the implementation of a wide range of not only labor, but also other socio-economic and personal rights and freedoms. Despite the relative research, the study of issues of further improvement of labor legislation does not lose its relevance, taking into account the fact that both the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in general and labor legislation in particular are constantly developing and need further development and improvement. The purpose of the study is a comprehensive study of the current state of the labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the definition of the main directions of its improvement in the light of the protection of labor rights. The methodological basis of the research is based on modern methods of cognition: dialectical, formally logical, historical, comparative legal, analytical-synthetic, system-structural, logical-legal. The article substantiates the need for new theoretical and methodological approaches to the consideration of the main directions of improving the labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in connection with which, there is an urgent need to study labor legislation, which is designed to ensure the labor rights of man and citizen, from the perspective of its further improvement. The concept of improving labor legislation is defined, which refers to the activities of the competent authorities of the state to support its qualitative state in accordance with the needs of the development of labor and closely related relations, which is aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of legal regulation of these relations.