Theoretical bases of the course «Practice of oral communication in Chinese»

The article examines the main approaches to creating modern foreign language courses. The authors analyze different approaches to teaching Chinese in Russia and abroad. The presented results were obtained when implementing an educational project of the Higher School of Economics “Speak Up”. Taking into account the results, the authors selected the methodological approach that suits the purpose of the course best of all. These approaches were effectively combined in the course “Practice of Oral Communication in Chinese”, mainly aimed at developing students' communicative competence.

communicative competence, intercultural competency approach, teaching foreign languages, the Chinese language