Using an Interactive Guide to Organize Training in Guided Tour Lessons: A Case Study on 'Maslenitsa Traditions'

This article is devoted to using ICT to organize learning (using the example of a lesson tour) in groups of international students studying Russian at the B1 level. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the creation and introduction into the educational process of an interactive guide on the topic "Maslenitsa traditions," aimed at forming communicative, linguistic, and socio-cultural competencies of foreign students. The object of the study is the process of introducing ICT in the field of foreign language education. The subject of the study: changing the content of the teaching methodology of RCT by introducing ICT into the learning process. Research objectives: to identify the methodological potential of ICT as a means of organizing training in groups of foreign students, to develop a system of exercises within the framework of an interactive excursion on the topic "Maslenitsa traditions" for foreign students, to create worksheets and introduce an interactive guide on the topic "Maslenitsa traditions" into the process of experiential learning in groups of foreign students of non-philological profile at the B1 level of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba. The methods and materials correspond to the specified research objectives. The analysis of scientific and methodological literature on topical issues of the use of ICT in the teaching methodology of RCT was carried out. To prove the interactive guide's effectiveness, experimental training was conducted at the Department of Russian Language No. 5 of the IRA RUDN, as well as an analysis of the results. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the creation and introduction into the educational process of an interactive guide on the topic "Maslenitsa traditions," aimed at forming communicative, linguistic, and socio-cultural competencies of foreign students. As a result of the study, the methodological potential of using an interactive guide within the framework of a lesson/excursion was revealed, and the conclusions of experimental training were indicated, confirming the effectiveness of introducing the chosen learning tool into the RCT learning process. It is proved that the use of an interactive guide increases the effectiveness of the formation of communicative, linguistic, and socio-cultural competencies of international students studying the Russian language and culture of Russia. The study concludes that the active introduction of ICT, namely, developments in the field of creating an interactive guide to organize learning within the framework of a lesson tour, contributes to international students’ successful and comprehensive development of the Russian language.

Russian as a foreign language, sociocultural competence, communicative competence, language competence, Information and communication technologies, interactive guide, lesson-excursion, interactivity, modern technologies, Russian culture