Elena Stepanenko

Today Russia is constantly strengthening its position on the market of educational services. In this regard, normative documents governing the process of foreign students’ training are reviewed and corrected. The relevance of the presented research is explained by the necessity of preparation, testing and edition of new textbooks and training manuals in accordance with corresponding orders and the current level of science development and teaching practice, including those used for teaching computer science to foreign students who undergo the preparation on additional general education programs. It is supposed to use the modern science and practice achievements to get high results of education at subject, personal and interdisciplinary level. Thus, the aim of the conducted research is the analysis of experience of teaching computer science to foreign citizens in Russian as a foreign language that allows to highlight main problems revealed during teaching process. Main methods in this case are: analysis and synthesis of literature used in teaching computer science to foreign citizens at the International Education Faculty at Tambov State Technical University; analysis and synthesis of results obtained during interviews and tests that reveal the effectiveness of mastering the material, and also forecasting of the education process quality after changing the structure of training manual on computer science. In this article the methodology of teaching computer science in Russian as a foreign language is presented. The main peculiarities of this methodology are: dividing the course of computer science as well as the training material into two parts – introductory and main part – and the unified structure of classes that include pre-text tasks, the adapted text and post-text tasks. As a result of the experimental research conducted since 2012 to present time and experiential teaching of computer science in Russian as a foreign language, there were developed methodical approaches to selecting, adaptation, structuring, presenting the necessary text material, choosing optimal in composition, number and purpose: 1) pre-text tasks aimed at preparing students for reading the text on the suggested subject and including term analysis, analysis of grammar structures that occur in the text; 2) post-text tasks aimed at consolidation of the studied material and containing questions and tasks for understanding the studied text, the material structuring. The practical use of the suggested system of classes on computer science for foreign citizens with the use of multimedia means allows to activate the learners’ cognitive activity, to increase their interest in learning the discipline, and, as a result, the effectiveness of the whole education process.