Formation of Oral Speech Skills in Russian as a Foreign Language Classes

This article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of developing students’ oral speech in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It analyzes the fact that lexical, grammatical, and phonetic knowledge alone does not ensure the full development of oral speech. Particular attention is paid to the role of communicative exercises, dialogic and monologic tasks, situational exercises, and independent speech activities in transforming acquired language knowledge into practical speech activity.