Yao Van

In today's world, it becomes important for foreign students to communicate and interact within the framework of intercultural communication, involving active participation in the system of national values, traditions, customs, norms and rules of behaviour in the target language country. In this respect there is a contradiction between the potential of teaching Russian as a foreign language in formation of not only communicative, but also the universal competence of foreign students and the lack of effective didactical conditions of its formation. The need to resolve the contradictions determined the problem of our study: what is the potential of didactic conditions for using communicative games method in teaching Chinese students Russian as a foreign language in the formation of universal competence. The purpose of this study is to develop didactic conditions for the use of communicative-game method in teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students. The article was prepared on the basis of the use of personal-activity and communicative approaches. A set of mutually-validating and complementary research methods was also used: methods of theoretical analysis; diagnostic methods; interview; methods of statistical data processing. According to the results of the study, it was found that the optimization of the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students would be more effective with the use of the developed didactic conditions for using the communicative-game method. The theoretical value and novelty of the work lies in the fact that the didactic conditions for using the communicative-game method in teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students from a position of personal-active and communicative approaches are scientifically justified. The theoretical and practical foundations of the communicative-game method of teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students in Russian and foreign universities are identified and established. The practical significance of the study is in determining the most effective methods and forms of game work at various stages of practical classes in Russian as a foreign language, contributing to the formation of communicative and universal competences of Chinese students.

The problem of optimizing the process of teaching the Russian language to foreign first-year students in non-linguistic universities and the formation of universal competence determine the relevance of the study in the article. The aim of the study is the theoretical and practical justification of the linguoculturological paradigm of teaching Russian to foreign first-year students in non-linguistic universities. To achieve the goal of the study, the survey method was used to obtain objective and subjective information about the success of Russian-language communication of first-year foreign students in non-linguistic universities and the usefulness of materials provided to students for learning the Russian language and culture of the country. According to the results of the study, the article presents a didactic model of teaching Russian to foreign first-year students in non-linguistic universities, developed in the context of a linguocultural paradigm. The proposed training model is implemented in Russian and foreign universities. The didactic model of training is aimed at the formation of universal competence among students. Universal competence assumes that students will use the acquired skills and knowledge in the field of the Russian language in order to establish intercultural communication in the country of the language being studied. Universal competence in the framework of the study includes the linguistic component, speech, subject and cultural components. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that an attempt was made to theoretically substantiate and develop a linguoculturological paradigm for teaching Russian to foreign first-year students in non-linguistic universities – based on the identified communicative and cultural needs, as well as theoretically justify the selection and presentation of linguistic and cultural materials that would contribute to the formation of universal competence. The theoretical significance and practical value of the work lies in the fact that a linguocultural paradigm of teaching the Russian language is developed on the basis of studying the linguodidactic and cultural needs of foreign first-year students in non-linguistic universities and correlating them with the communicative needs for using the Russian language in the country of the studied language.