Keyword: «speech competence»

The article analyzes the experience of speech competence development among students of the Bryansk branch of the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Training of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs Personnel in the course of the discipline "Russian language in business documentation. Culture of speech”. The ways and means of mastering the correct speech are determined; the specificity of basic abstracts methods use and activation of thinking (discussion) for the acquirement of appropriate knowledge, skills and increasing motivation to master the expressive means of language is revealed. Within the framework of the considered problem, the author offers arguments justifying the need to support the language component in the retraining of the police officers.

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of activating the socio-psychological adaptation of students to study at a university in accordance with the requirements that the new environment establishes; it examines various forms of adaptation: superficial and complete, creating the possibility of organizing successful joint activities. The article presents the special possibilities of improving the language competence of students as a way to activate the adaptation process and its main directions: improving communication skills, the ability to structure mental processes; assistance in integration into society in accordance with the requirements put forward by it.

The article considers the project method as one of the effective methods of teaching professionally oriented English to future aviation specialists of different stages of training and specialties. The project method is considered as a way of forming the speech competence of cadets, deepening professional knowledge and motivating cadets to study.

The article touches upon some aspects of working with the texts of folk tales at the lessons of Russian as a foreign language. For foreign students such texts may be considered as one of the instruments of sociocultural adaptation as well as the material for getting lexical and grammar skills. The example of working with the text of the Russian foik tale ‘The Magic Swan Geese’ is analysed by the author. It may be used at the beginning of teaching Russian as a foreign language.