Abstract:

The authors of the article hold that one of the methods of increasing of the beginner foreign students' study efficiency consists in the inclusion of gaming technologies in the studying process. Experience shows that communicative games can unite the student group and motivate them to interact with each other at the initial stage of the Russian language and speech standards study. The authors share their practical experience of the use of such gaming technologies as filling in the gaps, guessing, searching, matching, exchanging, accumulating and gathering, role-playing and reproduction in the process of study. It is concluded that these technologies can be successfully put into practice at the initial stage of study. They promote the increment of the foreign students’ learning activity in the process of the language study.