ON IMPROVING STUDENTS'' VOCABULARY IN RUSSIAN LESSONS
The article is devoted to the crucial issue of methods of teaching the Russian language - enlarging students’ vocabulary and grammatical structure of speech. Despite sufficient research in classical and modern works on teaching the Russian language, there exist certain problems related to the practical application of methodological guidelines. The situation is compounded by students’ neglect of Russian and Old Russian literature. The GEF requirements for the organization of a modern Russian language lesson allow us to solve the problems in a new way. The relevance of our research is determined by our reference to the method of the personality development as well as cognitive and communicative learning activities, aiming to enrich the students’ vocabulary in the course of literature studies. The novelty of the research consists in elaborating approaches to the development of students’ active and passive vocabulary based on various text-based tasks from school curricula in literature and integrated lessons of the Russian language and literature. The article substantiates the need for pre-text vocabulary activities, immediately before reading and spread over a period of time. We also analyze verbal-semantic exercises for the quantitative and qualitative increase in students’ active and passive vocabulary based on literary texts and suggest new types of exercises aimed to develop the cognitive interest in pupils. As a result of the proposed system of work on a quantitative and qualitative improvement of students' vocabulary, we achieve increased motivation to self-learning activities on vocabulary acquisition of the Russian language, linguistic research into literary texts and creative types of work on the Russian language and literature.