Keyword: «linguistic skills»

Every year the number of foreign students studying in higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation has been growing. The criteria for evaluating the work of a higher education institution during its certification include four types of activities: educational, international, scientific and financial. Since the quality of foreign students' education directly depends on their level of the Russian language proficiency, the problem of the comprehensive teaching them Russian language as a foreign one is of particular importance. The article focuses on the psychological aspect of the language use in the processes of individual speech activity and speech communication, forms of the language use for communication, some aspects of speech perception, characteristics and properties of the language personality. The purpose of the study is to improve the efficiency of teaching Russian as a foreign language for University entrants at the preparatory courses. Research methods included: ascertaining and forming experiments; methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the obtained data. The main result of the work is conducting research on a complex ratio of the Russian language and psychology to create innovative integrative systems of teaching the Russian language for university entrants at the preparatory courses, which intensifies the process of scientific research and the practical implementation of scientific results. The theoretical significance of the work is in developing an effectiveness model of teaching Russian as a foreign language for university entrants at the preparatory courses; practical significance lies in the use of theoretical aspects of the research in the development of foreign students’ speech (skills in working with language material for interpersonal communication; communication skills; logical, critical, symbolic, figurative, subject thinking skills) in the process of teaching the Russian language at Russian universities.