Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The authors of the article address the problem of finding effective methods of teaching terms in Russian as a foreign language. In accordance with the purpose of the study, the conditions for the successful development of terminology by foreign students are determined, a system of educational tasks is being developed that allows forming the skill of verbal expression of generalization and concretization. This skill allows them to remove difficulties in the formulation of terms and in operating with special vocabulary. The authors relied on the following methods: descriptive-analytical, the method of activating the reserve capabilities of the individual and the team (G.A. Kitaygorodskaya), the principle of interdisciplinary coordination and integrated (professionally and communicatively directed) foreign language teaching, the principle of rational restriction of the vocabulary minimum in order to develop the maximum number of speech skills (V.A. Bukhbinder). The authors demonstrate that the effective use of terminology in professional communication is impossible without speech and cognitive “scenarios”: generalization, concretization, selection of distinctive features and assessment of their (in-)sufficiency.

Annotation: The article is devoted to the relevant problem of choice of the assessment tool of the competencies forming among university students. The authors of the article describe a study related to the use of a professional podcast contest conducted in a foreign language as an assessment tool to determine the level of development of foreign language communicative competence among students of non-linguistic areas studying the discipline “Foreign (English) language in the professional area.” The choice of this assessment tool is dictated by the need to search for alternative forms of control when traditional forms lose their relevance and do not always correspond to new requirements of the educational process. The authors come to the conclusion that the use of podcasting technology in the educational process is effective, since it ensures professional orientation of tasks for control, increases motivation to learn a foreign language and contributes to the realization of the creative potential of students. The practical significance of the study lies in the critical assessment of teaching experience, as well as the possibility of using the presented task in the practice of teaching a foreign language.

Annotation: The specifics of the ongoing changes in the modern world, which is characterized by sharply aggravated global political, economic, social, ethnic and spiritual and moral problems, determines as a priority the problem of harmonious intercultural coexistence, interaction and cooperation of people of different nationalities, different faiths in a single multi-ethnic society. Therefore, the problem of perspective specialists’ professional training, including military personnel, for life in a multicultural environment is of particular relevance. The effective conduction of military-professional activities in modern sociocultural conditions is possible only in accordance with national characteristics and cultural needs of subjects as different ethnic groups representatives. The inclusion of an ethnocultural component in the process of professional training at a military university, the purpose of which is to educate a humanistically oriented personality, open to communication with representatives of various nationalities, taking into account the features of ethnocultural education of comrades, as well as possible difficulties of interethnic interaction and able to find constructive ways to resolve it, seems to be the most acceptable in authors opinion. The purpose of this article is to analyze the problem of the ethnocultural component of professional training at a military university from the standpoint of the expediency of its inclusion in the system of higher military education.

Annotation: The aim of the study is to provide a multidimensional methodological description of a distance project for introducing foreign language students to the cultural heritage of a particular region of the target language in Russian as a foreign language classes. The subject of the study is the methodology of formation of non-native speakers’ readiness to learn Russian through the project “Hospitable Russia”. Pedagogical science recognizes the need to implement distance forms of learning, which acquire special significance in work with foreigners. In the practice of teaching Russian in a foreign audience it is necessary to form in students an idea of the studied language through the system of knowledge about the culture of the country as a whole and a separate region in particular. In the course of the research the authors turned to the following methods: pedagogical observation, empirical generalization, methodological experiment. The article presents the methodological development of the creative project “Hospitable Russia” for foreign students from the Republic of Uganda. Based on the conducted experimental training, the authors make suggestions for further development and improvement of the project for its implementation in the audience of students from African countries.

Annotation: The purpose of the article is an essential and structural-content analysis of digital behavior as a phenomenon of the digitalization era with the justification of the analogy of this phenomenon with behavior in the traditional sense of the term. The presented goal involves the use of research tools, which includes phenomenological and structural-content analysis of both general humanitarian and psychological-pedagogical nature. Elements of the differentiation method, abstraction and synthesis are used to identify individual components of the content of digital behavior. As a result of the research, the author makes conclusions about the difference between the concept of digital behavior and the concept of using the Internet, taking into account the special meaningful personality-conditioned aspects of digital life inherent in the former. At the same time, the structure of digital behavior appears to be the unity of all network actions that can be differentiated as search, consumption, production and exchange of information. At the same time, consumption is a key information aspect of personal development in the digital environment; and the content of digital behavior includes value-semantic, ideological, cognitive and motivational-target components.