This article examines the efficiency of the portfolio technology as a means of educational monitoring and individual progress assessment (both in the matter of quality and quantity) of foreign student on the basic level of the Russian language studies. The portfolio technology provides the terms of partnership between teacher and student, which is really indispensable in the modern conditions of education. It produces an extra educational effect by developing such skills as: self-analysis, self-control and self-assessment. And it also motivates a student to reveal his (or her) creative skills, to start using earlier the language of his (or her) study in real situations of communication.

portfolio technology, progress assessment of foreign student, the basic level of the Russian language studies.