A MENTAL MAP AS AN ACTUAL TECHNOLOGY OF ETHNOMETHOD

Abstract

The article reveals the use of one of the most relevant technologies of teaching Russian as a foreign language in pedagogical activity – the mental map. The use of this technology contributes to the systematization and intensification of learning in groups with different levels of Russian language proficiency. At the Department of the Russian Language of the Military Institute of Physical Training, the mental maps are used at the language levels A2 and B1 when foreign servicemen master the language of the specialty. It is especially relevant to use the mental map when teaching foreign servicemen who are mastering the Russian language program at elementary, basic and I certification levels and who are experiencing difficulties in composing their own monologue utterance. In this category of trainees, in the process of creating mental maps, a qualitatively different understanding of information occurs than when perceiving and reproducing linear text.