Abstract
In language contact the notion “interference” was introduced by U. Weinreich that referredto the influence of one language on another in the speech of bilinguals. Currently, the linguists emphasizea complex and multifaceted nature of interference, as a phenomenon of a two-way interaction that hasboth a negative and positive impact in the bilingualism context. In order to identify linguistic interference,the research method as associative experiment is chosen. The aim of the study is to analyze interferenceappeared while providing the immediate associations on historical terms-realia by graduate students. Thenotion term-realia introduced by A. D. Schweitzer is applied as the proposed stimulus words can be exactlydefined neither historical realia nor terms. The article provides the information on interference, terms andrealia, the position of an associative experiment in general and in Kazakhstani linguistics in particular. Itdiscusses the results of the performed associative experiment with the provided list of words-reactions onstimulus words.