Computer Programs in Teaching Foreign Languages

The article discusses modern computer tools for teaching foreign languages. The characteristic is given of the program means providing comprehensive and systematic training in all types of speech activity in a foreign language. The program products focused on training a specific skill or the development of a specific aspect or lev of language are described. The advantages and disadvantages of these program means are mentioned. It is concluded that the most known, having a large circulation program products in the methodological attitude follow traditional textbooks and minimally implement new approaches to teaching foreign languages.В статье рассматриваются современные компьютерные средства обучения иностранным языкам. Дается характеристика программных средств, содержащих целостное и систематическое обучение всем видам речевой деятельности на иностранном языке. Описываются программные продукты, нацеленные на тренировку конкретного навыка или освоение отдельного аспекта или уровня языка. Отмечаются преимущества и недостатки данных программных средств, делается вывод о том, что наиболее известные, имеющие большие тиражи программные продукты в методическом отношении следуют за традиционными учебниками и в минимальной степени реализуют принципиально новые подходы в обучении иностранным языкам

Methods of Work on Judicial Speech in the Classroom on the Subject of “Judicial Eloquence”

В статье предпринята попытка рассмотреть судебную речь как полижанровый и полистилистилевой текст. В тексте судебной речи выделяются элементы аргументирующей, информирующей и эпидейктической речей. Подчеркивается приоритет аргументативной составляющей, которой подчиняются информационная и эпидейктическая составляющие. Предлагается последовательность изучения теоретического материала, а также систем заданий, нацеленных на формирование навыков монологических выступлений разных типов, подчиненные движению от общериторических принципов и правил к их реализации в практике подготовки и произнесения судебной речи.The article attempts to examine judicial speech as polystylistical and multi genre text. In the text of the judiciary speech highlighted the elements of justifying, informing and epigenetics speeches. This article emphasizes the priority of the argumentative component, which are subject to the information and epigenetics components. Proposed sequence of study of theoretical material and a system of tasks aimed at the formation of skills of monologue performances of different types that are subject to movement from observatories principles and rules to implement them in the practice of preparing and pronouncing judicial speech

Legal and Methodological Aspects of Studying Russian as a Foreign Language at the University

Рассматриваются правовые и методические аспекты введения для студентов-инофонов, обучающихся в российских вузах, курса русского языка как иностранного вместо курса другого иностранного языка (английского, французского и др.), входящего в базовую часть учебного плана и соответственно являющегося одним из основных общеобразовательных предметов. Доказывается, что в сочетании с программами дополнительного образования освоение русского языка в качестве иностранного в рамках основного курса «Иностранный язык» будет способствовать выработке у студентов навыков общения на русском языке, необходимых как для дальнейшего самостоятельного изучения языка, так и для осуществления учебной деятельности на русском языке.This article considers the question of legal and methodological aspects of the introduction for the students-inophone studying at the Russian Universities a course of Russian as a foreign language instead of a course of another foreign language (English, French, etc.), which is included in the basic part of the curriculum and, accordingly, is one of the main General subjects. It is proved that in combination with the programs of additional education, the development of Russian as a foreign language in the framework of the basic course “Foreign language” will contribute to the development of students ‘ communication skills in Russian, necessary for further selfstudy of the language, and for the implementation of educational activities in Russian

Teaching Grammar on a Syntactic Basis in Study of Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses of Reason and Purpose in the Classes of Russian as a Foreign Language

Дана характеристика методического потенциала конструкций русского языка с причинными и целевыми значениями с функциональной и коммуникативно ориентированных позиций. Представлена следующая последовательность работы с данным материалом на занятиях по русскому языку как иностранному: предъявление двух высказываний, содержащих потенциально связываемые причинными или целевыми отношениями пропозиции; постановка задачи связи пропозиций; формулировка вопроса; ответ на вопрос в виде предложения, формально представляющего связь между пропозициями, изменение форм лица, числа, времени, наклонения грамматической основы предложения, распространение предложения; приведение синтаксических синонимов.The methodological potential of Russian language constructions with target and causal values is characterized in accordance with functional and communicatively-oriented positions. Sequence of work with this material in the classes of Russian as a foreign language is presented by the following: presentation of two statements consisting of potentially connected reasonable or proposal relations, setting a task to connect propositions, formulation of a question, answer to a question as a sentence, which is formally presents the link between propositions, change of person, number, time, mood of grammatical basis of a sentence, extension of a sentence, presentation of syntactic synonyms

Exchange coupling in Eu monochalcogenides from first principles

Using a density functional method with explicit account for strong Coulomb repulsion within the 4f shell, we calculate effective exchange parameters and the corresponding ordering temperatures of the (ferro)magnetic insulating Eu monochalcogenides (EuX; X=O,S,Se,Te) at ambient and elevated pressure conditions. Our results provide quantitative account of the many-fold increase of the Curie temperatures with applied pressure and reproduce well the enhancement of the tendency toward ferromagnetic ordering across the series from telluride to oxide, including the crossover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic ordering under pressure in EuTe and EuSe. The first and second neighbor effective exchange are shown to follow different functional dependencies. Finally, model calculations indicate a significant contribution of virtual processes involving the unoccupied f states to the effective exchange.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure

Syntactic dictionaries of the Russian language and the problem of developing an educational syntactic dictionary

The article attempts to consider the existing syntactic dictionaries of the Russian language - educational collocation dictionaries and academic syntactic dictionaries - from the point of view of the possibilities of their application in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. Based on the analysis, the following conclusions about the methodological obstacles to the use of syntactic dictionaries in the study of RFL are drawn the idea of developing a new educational syntactic dictionary, which will take into account the frequency in the oral and written speech of certain syntactic structures (models of phrases, structural schemes of sentences), will consider the level of proficiency in the target language of potential users of the dictionary, will use the functional principle in the grouping of heading units, contact attention to the phenomenon of syntactic synonymy, is put forward.Предпринята попытка рассмотреть существующие синтаксические словари русского языка (учебные словари сочетаемости и академические синтаксические словари) с точки зрения возможностей их применения в методике преподавания русского языка как иностранного. На основе анализа делаются выводы о методических препятствиях для использования синтаксических словарей при изучении русского языка как иностранного, выдвигается идея разработки нового учебного синтаксического словаря, в котором будет учитываться частотность в устной и письменной речи определенных синтаксических структур (моделей словосочетаний, структурных схем предложений), приниматься во внимание уровень владения изучаемым языком потенциальных пользователей словаря, использоваться функциональный принцип в группировке заголовочных единиц, обращаться внимание на явление синтаксической синонимии

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as a Part of the Staff Performance Management at the University: A Case of Medical University

The main purpose of this research is to conduct the theoretical and applied study of KPIs as an evaluation tool of universities’ activity; to identify the issues of special organizational requirements for its use. In this study such basic methods as analysis, synthesis and comparison are used. Medical university and its staff are an object of the research. The article using the case of the medical university describes the Key Performance Indicators of the university, its principles and practices of application, provides a justification of the optimality of the selected system for the evaluation and development of the university’s staff and its efficiency to achieve the university’s strategic goals. KPIs are adapted in accordance with the requirements of the modern higher education and takes into account the main goals of the strategic plan of the university’s development. The article describes in detail the principles of KPIs construction, based on the decomposition of the strategic goals

Actualization of a statement through order of the sentence (the Russian and Tajik languages)

The objective of the article is examining the words order in an utterance of the Russian and Tajik languages in comparative and typological aspects; revealing peculiarities of the structural-grammatical and actual aspects of studying the words order in sentences of the compared languages, depending whereon regular laws of rigidity or flexibility of the words order and linear-dynamic structures of a sentence in the compared languages are established, which allows to take a fresh look at the issue of interaction between the communicative and constructive structures in the languages under study (Russian and Tajik) and to determine the role of various means of expressing the words order in forming different types of information in the Russian and Tajik languages. Materials and methods: descriptive method; linguistic experiment integrating various types of transformation; comparative method revealing differences of communicative structures of reviewed sentences, verbal statements, types of words order in sentences and statements; direct observation method implying observing arrangement of words in texts when expressing the grammatical and logical base of a sentence. Tables presented in the article reflect the basic models of words order in the Russian and Tajik languages which are necessary in practical teaching of the both languages. Practical significance lies in expansion and deepening of theoretical knowledge of the role of words order and other means of actual articulation of a sentence in the Russian and Tajik languages; in formation of communicative competence and practical skills in process of professional teaching of translators and editors, and also in working-out of the general theory of words order in sentences, communicative structure of a sentence and functional grammar, which is one of leading lines of researching of the sentence in the modern linguistics. © 2018 by the authors

Specialties of the linguistic identity of a native speaker of the Chinese language and their accounting during the choosing pedagogical teaching aids in the Russian language phonetics

The article is devoted to the problem of working out an effective approach to teaching Russian to Chinese students, which would allow taking into account the peculiarities of Chinese speakers. The relevance of the problem is due to the steady growth of interest in the Russian language among Chinese citizens, who currently constitute the majority of all foreign students in Russia. Features of the linguistic identity of a native speaker of the Chinese language and their accounting when choosing pedagogical teaching aids in the phonetics of the Russian language. The article discusses the specialties of the Chinese language and some social and psychological features of its speakers, affecting the process of learning Russian as a foreign language. Particular attention is paid to the characteristic of morphological and phonetic differences between Chinese and Russian languages, a system of pedagogical principles and pedagogical tools for teaching Russian vocabulary, grammar and the correct pronunciation are described. Based on empirical studies, the difficulties and the typical mistakes caused by Chinese speakers in the study of Russian as a foreign language are presentedПоднята проблема выработки эффективного подхода к обучению русскому языку китайских учащихся, которые в настоящий момент в России составляют большую часть иностранных студентов. Рассмотрены особенности китайского языка и социально-психологические черты его носителей, влияющие на процесс изучения русского языка как иностранного. Особое внимание уделено характеристике морфологических и фонетических различий китайского и русского языков, описана система педагогических принципов и реализующих их педагогических средств обучения лексике и грамматике русского языка, постановки правильного произношения. На базе эмпирических исследований показаны типичные ошибки, совершаемые носителями китайского языка при изучении русского как иностранног