Современные методические технологии на практических занятиях по РКИ в Литовской военной академии

ENThe article analyzes the tasks and specific methods of teaching Russian as the second foreign language at The General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. The article defines the set of qualities that make up a professional speaking and linguistic competence of the graduates of the higher military educational institution. The author emphasizes the importance for the trainees to have a sufficient vocabulary of the foreign (Russian) language, which should be in common with the vocabulary of native speakers, who are the representatives of different language and cultural groups. The paper indicates the feasibility of entering special military vocabulary and terminology from the earliest stages of learning a foreign language. The article also proves the necessity for intensification of educational process by the use of new methods and technologies of foreign language teaching. The author supposes that the best way is to produce a well-thought-out combination of different methods of teaching during a lesson. The method of activation is considered as one of the main methods of teaching Russian at the Military Academy of Lithuania. The author concludes that a successful mastery of the second foreign language learning to a great degree depends on an optimal combination of methods and techniques of teaching. While not excluding the importance of the use of traditional teaching methods, the author points to the need of using new ways of learning, involving the use of entire arsenal of modern technology starting with the use of audiovisual training materials and ending with computer programs for classroom and distance language learning developed by teachers and methodologists. A teacher should be prepared to use a differentiated approach to teaching a foreign language chosen by cadets for learning because their level of language knowledge can be, and mostly is, different in a group.In addition, professional vocabulary and military terminology learning becomes extremely important for the cadets who learn Russian as the second foreign language. That is why this language material must be carried out and introduced into the practice in parallel with the introduction of general everyday vocabulary at all stages of training.