Effective system of exercises for training Russian grammatical skills in international cadets using the metamodel principle

   The purpose of the article is to describe an effective system of exercises for the development of grammatical skills in international cadets at the preparatory course of the special faculty of the Military Institute (engineering and technical) of the Military Academy of Logistics named after Army General V. A. Khrulev (hereinafter – VI IT VA MTO). We created control and experimental groups, in the latter groups we implemented our approach to teaching grammar of the Russian language.

   The teaching in the experimental group was based on the innovative metamodel principle of representing Russian grammar, as well as the methodological methods for building exercises proposed by S. F. Shatilov as a three-stage system: from orientation to standardization and subsequent variation. The article thoroughly analyzes the algorithms for introducing the orienting components of Russian grammar, provides a hierarchy of standardization exercises and suggests possible options for varying Russian speech in conditionally communicative and actually communicative exercises.

   The metamodel principle of minimal grammatical models was described by M. V. Vsevolodova, we added necessary components, guiding international cadets - a constitutional distributor and a speech correlate, to its structure, which is a scientific novelty.

   In addition, the system of exercises for these minimal structures has not been previously developed in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. In the article, we attempt to implement an improved theory in a three-stage system of effective exercises for the development of international cadets’ grammatical skills. We present a classification of the task system, identify blocks, describe their possible thematic content and the most effective components of the three-stage methodological model. The experimentally obtained data prove that this system of exercises is highly effective in teaching Russian as a foreign language at an elementary level.

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