The advantages of the communicative and intensive methods combining in a train-ing course of foreign students

Abstract. The authors view the methodological approaches to teaching foreign languages and give the definition of a teaching method. The authors consider that for the formation of communicative competence of students it is necessary to search new methods of teaching and substantiate the appropriateness and effectiveness of unifying of communicative and intensive methods in the process of teaching Russian language. The authors also describe the features and principles of intensive communicative training.