Abstract
The article deals with elaborating criteria that modify lexis arrangement, using effective creative teaching strategies as a learning tool for foreign exchange students that helps in the dialogue of cultures and facilitates becoming an internationally oriented person. It shows how the project methodic comprises research and problematic methods. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this technology on the empirical material (examples from real teaching practice of Chinese students, who learn Russian language as a foreign). As an illustration of the method the situational model “common trip” is selected. The conclusion of the work: project technique activates speech creativity of students, contributes to productive interpersonal cooperation and fundamental knowledge.