MOTIVATION AND TEACHING SPEAKING SKILLS TO AMERICAN STUDENTS

DOI: 10.24412/2470-1262-2024-1-85-90

Abstract. One of the important goals of learning and teaching any language is speaking. The main theme of the article is to address the importance of motivation and language preparation in teaching students of Russian to speak on various topics. It is not an easy task to prepare students to move from Introductory, to Intermediate and Advanced level of Russian using films, articles, short stories, historical texts, while maintaining their motivation. Teachers need to continue working on the formation of linguistic, cultural, historical aspects while keeping their class vibrant and interesting. At the Advanced level, various stylistic and morphological subtleties can be introduced and analyzed. Films with full transcripts and glossing are very powerful not only as a language, but a cultural and emotional tool. Students of Russian appreciate greatly an authentic text, film, stories, articles, and they are motivated to discuss them with a new vocabulary and structure for taking their speaking skills to the next level.

Keywords: student motivation, speaking skills, language and film, language and text, vocabulary expansion, formation of active student oral skills

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