Use of Feature Films in the Course of Formation Communicative Competence and Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation of Foreign Students

The article aims to study some aspects of foreign students' speech communicative competence development in Russian language learning. Movies (or feature films) have potential benefits to provide social, linguistic and culturological adaptation of foreign students in Russian-speaking surrounding.
The experiment discovered and confirmed positive outcomes of using movies in foreign students education, for encouraging their various communicative competences, further linguistic proficiency and country knowledge.

communicative competence, linguistic culturology, ethnomethodology, intercultural communication, social and cultural adaptation