Keyword: «natural learning environment»

Song in the Course of Russian as a Foreign Language as a Means of Approximating the Learning Environment to the Natural One

Author:

Elena Panfilova

The article deals with the relation between music and language acquisition, the role of music and songs in teaching foreign languages; ways of application music in methodologies based on model of speech acquisition in ontogenesis are being described; examples of introducing songs into courses of Russian as a foreign language for medical students at an elementary level of language learning are provided.

Keywords: russian as a foreign language, song, music, natural learning environment, teaching foreign languages based on speech ontogenesis model