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.

The article discusses the introduction the regional studies materials into the course of Russian as a foreign language and reveals the importance of this information for improving students level cultureand the success of their mastering this discipline.

The article examines the issue of updating the socio-cultural potential of the region through the prism of students’ project activities in a foreign (English) language. Using a specific example of a 6th grade student’s project to create a travel brochure about the Ryazan region, the mechanisms of integrating local history content into the process of foreign language education are analyzed. The author proves that such projects not only form communicative foreign language competence, but also perform a significant educational and career guidance function, contributing to the development of regional identity, civic responsibility and popularization of the cultural heritage of the small homeland. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the choice of attractions (Paustovsky Trail, the Sky of Russia Festival, Ryazan Kremlin, Staraya Ryazan, Kasimov, Skopin) as representatives of the multifaceted socio-cultural potential of the region.