ORGANIZATION OF OUT-OF-CLASSROOM READING IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
The article is dedicated to a problem of increasing the level of communication skills of students of a medical university, which is relevant for the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. Reading as a type of speech activity, according to the authors of the article, is one of the aspects that requires increased attention from the teacher, since the period of distance learning revealed a decrease in the quality of mastering reading skills. The organization of extracurricular reading is an effective way to improve the quality of education and student motivation to learn the Russian language. The article substantiates the expediency of extracurricular reading as a form of independent work of a student, analyzes textbooks for foreign students majoring in Medicine, gives recommendations on working with texts. This form of work allows optimizing the process of mastering reading skills, increase the efficiency of working with texts in Russian language classes.