‘THE FLYING SHIP’ CARTOON FOR RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS AS A SOURCE OF PROBLEM-BASED SITUATIONS

Abstract

The article describes methods of the work with Russian animated fairytale film ‘The Flying Ship’ at Russian as a foreign language class. The work is divided into three stages: pre-viewing, viewing and post-viewing ones. Concernment and involvement of students into active discussion at all stages are important factors of reaching education goals. Different methods providing real communication in learning environment such as a talk, a discussion, acting out dialogs, making stories or role games are suggested for use in the process of the work with the cartoon divided into problem-based logical parts. The work with any cartoon promotes students’ activity, raises interest, and assures conditions for creative self-expres-sion both for a teacher and a student as well as language immersion. During the communication within a simulated problem-based situation a foreigner participates in dialogs, learns to give full answers to ques-tions, and articulates his or her ideas in Russian. The presented work lets foreign students reach a common understanding with representatives of a foreign culture and helps to create environment for learning the culture of their target language country, understanding peculiarities of national character and promot-ing adaptation of non-native speaker learners in Russian language environment. The work with the fairytale cartoon ‘The flying ship’ promotes the creation of prob-lem-based situations at classes, which lets activate speaking skills, hence develop linguistic and extralinguistic competences in foreign students. A cartoon lets a foreigner ‘dive’ into Russian national culture, understand basic values, discover national character peculiarities that all help in adaptation to Russian extralinguistic language environment.