Developing Role of Excursion Lessons with Students Studying Russian as a Foreign Language
The article analyses the role and significance of educational excursions in the classroom with students studying Russian as a foreign language. Such linguistic and regional geography study, carried out constantly and systematically, significantly increases the level of students’ linguistic and cultural knowledge, stimulates their creative and intellectual activity, motivates students to study Russian culture, history, and traditions. The task of the teacher of Russian as a foreign language is to interest students in the topic of the excursion, stimulate their desire to learn more, see and remember during the excursion, and then use the acquired knowledge in practice. For this, the teacher needs to determine the goals, objectives, subjects, content, place, time and duration of the excursion, select special lexical and grammar material necessary for introducing, practicing the materials studied, checking the knowledge gained and generalizing what was seen. The article presents three main stages of organizing and conducting study tours: preparation (preliminary classroom studies), the rules for conducting and requirements for organizing the tour itself, and knowledge processing (final classroom lesson). The linguistic and regional knowledge that students receive during the excursions significantly increase their creative and intellectual activities, motivate them to study the Russian language, Russian his-tory and culture.