Methodological foundations of teaching vocabulary to foreign students-nonphilologists by means of computer technologies (initial stage of training)

The necessity to enhance significantly the quality of communicative competence formation when teaching the Russian language to foreign students of nonphilological profile demands application of new teaching techniques. At present, in the methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL), the studies are being actively undertaken, experiments in the field of introduction of computer technologies in teaching foreign languages are being conducted. It is evident that modern computer programmes can take into account individual needs and interests of learners, different strategies of acquisition/mastery of the language, can differentiate the ways of presentation of learning material, provide individual forms of training, create a wide range of stimuli for involvement of learners in foreign speech activity, provide immersion in the verbal environment. The purpose of the research is theoretical substantiation, scientific and methodical development of the integral, optimal system of parameters, underlying the use of special computer programmes, Internet data on formation and development of the vocabulary component of speech activity. In the paper, the main directions of enhancing the quality of the training process by means of computer technologies have been outlined; specific teaching techniques of using computer programmes in teaching the Russian language vocabulary to foreign students have been described.