DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CREATING OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE)

Abstract

The objective of the article is to describe results on creation of digital practically oriented educational resource. The resource is intended for foreign students studying Russian on the elementary and basic levels of Russian proficiency. The system of exercises and the way the material is presented contribute to improving listening and speech automation skills in real communication situations, in other words to developing of communicative competence, including through distance learning. Communicative competence is the main competence in the process of foreign language learning. It is considered formed on condition that a student is able to produce a monologue as well as participate in a dialogue appropriately responding to the interlocutor’s replicas. Based on the analysis of theoretical basis of the research and the material of the produced digital educational resource, the authors conclude that content of communicative competence is determined by learning objectives and needs of students and also improves their motivation. Success in communicative competence formation depends on structuring educational material, ways of presenting it, development and monitoring of learning.