Keyword: «teaching russian as a foreign language»

In today's world, it becomes important for foreign students to communicate and interact within the framework of intercultural communication, involving active participation in the system of national values, traditions, customs, norms and rules of behaviour in the target language country. In this respect there is a contradiction between the potential of teaching Russian as a foreign language in formation of not only communicative, but also the universal competence of foreign students and the lack of effective didactical conditions of its formation. The need to resolve the contradictions determined the problem of our study: what is the potential of didactic conditions for using communicative games method in teaching Chinese students Russian as a foreign language in the formation of universal competence. The purpose of this study is to develop didactic conditions for the use of communicative-game method in teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students. The article was prepared on the basis of the use of personal-activity and communicative approaches. A set of mutually-validating and complementary research methods was also used: methods of theoretical analysis; diagnostic methods; interview; methods of statistical data processing. According to the results of the study, it was found that the optimization of the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students would be more effective with the use of the developed didactic conditions for using the communicative-game method. The theoretical value and novelty of the work lies in the fact that the didactic conditions for using the communicative-game method in teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students from a position of personal-active and communicative approaches are scientifically justified. The theoretical and practical foundations of the communicative-game method of teaching Russian as a foreign language to Chinese students in Russian and foreign universities are identified and established. The practical significance of the study is in determining the most effective methods and forms of game work at various stages of practical classes in Russian as a foreign language, contributing to the formation of communicative and universal competences of Chinese students.