Keyword: «elt»
The necessity of communicative competence forming is an essential peculiarity of foreign language education. According to the Federal State Educational Standard competence forming is a means of successful integration of the student into the multicultural surrounding. The authors analyze the educational potential of the edutainment technology that is actual taking into the consideration modern tendencies of development in general.
The article examines the issues of integration of the regional component in ELT at school. The main aspects of the regional component are represented in this paper. The major difficulties of implementation of this component are identified. Prospects of introduction of the regional component in the educational process are also explored. The author enumerates and analyzes the main ways of working with the regional component at English lessons.

Ekaterina A. Nikolashina