Creating Artificial Environment for Teaching Communication

Abstract

The process of mastering a foreign language at a Russian university is carried out in a specially organized linguodidactic environment, which implies a methodical system created in accordance with peculiarities of a natural linguocultural society. This system combines components of effective teaching and methods of pedagogical management ensuring a step-by-step development of students’ linguistic personality based on European standards of language proficiency. The necessary basis for a modern linguodidactic environment is information and communications technology (ICT), which opens unrestricted access to the world of native speakers in the global communication network. The linguodidactic language environment, which is based on ICT tools, demonstrates and thereby shapes sociocultural stereotypes, and provides an opportunity to learn peculiarities of communicative behavior in a foreign language. Moreover, such linguodidactic language environment ensures students’ participation in real language communication and pushes the boundaries of conventional educational situations, thus, expanding students’ experience of intercultural communication.