Keyword: «regional studies»

The article discusses the features of the linguistic and cultural approach in teaching a foreign language. The implementation of the linguistic and cultural approach in the classroom of a foreign language stimulates interest in its study among students, helps to broaden their horizons and motivates them to further self-study.

The article deals with aspects of text work at the lessons of regional studies and Russian as a foreign language, which are tools for foreign students` socio-cultural adapting. The author exposes the educational material about the disease and the city in which a foreigner is studying as a necessary element of socio-cultural adaptation. We describe the experience of guide development of regional studies, aimed at forming regional communicative competence. An example of text analysis containing the regional study information is given.