SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A VIRTUAL SPACE FOR RFL-TEACHING
The article focuses on the role of social networks in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The report aims to provide a theoretical and practical significance of the use of social media in the educational process through the development of cross-cultural communication skills. The use of this resource is the modern way to make RFL teaching process more mobile and more successful. The undoubted advantage of the use of virtual space, social networks in educational process is the possibility of active interaction of the teacher and the student in the hypertext multimedia space. In a familiar and comfortable environment, the student actively participates in the educational process, devoted to learning materials more time. The teacher and the student can begin the educational process at any time convenient for them, so it makes possible continuity of the educational process. We receive the opportunity to more detailed individualized work. The discussion started during class instruction, may be continued in the social network. This will allow the student more time to be in the process of understanding the learning content, which in turn will lead to better mastering of the necessary material. The article presents a detailed analysis of the e-learning resource, created under the guidance of the author for the training of RFL on the basis of social network "VKontakte". Discusses the capabilities of the resource in the formation of linguistic, communicative and cultural competences. Special attention is paid to learning the skills of intercultural communication.