Features of using multimedia presentations and electronic textbooks to teach foreign citizens in Russian universities

Abstract

The article raises the problem of training cadets of the CIS countries who receive higher education in military universities of our country. Russian language proficiency is the main problem, as the training is exclusively in Russian, and as part of a Russian group. Language acquisition occurs gradually during interpersonal communication, and most of all, at classes. One of the first subjects that cadets start studying is mathematics. The main feature of mathematics is the universality of formulas for communication in its language both in the CIS countries and in the world. It greatly simplifies the process of transmitting information to students, allows the teacher to minimize the number of Russian words at the first stages of training (first year of training) gradually raising the volume of definitions and theorems. The great majority of students from the CIS countries freely perceive the lecture and fully assimilate the information even in such a section of «Higher mathematics»as probability theory by the end of the second year. The article shows the transition from the overwhelming number of formulas in the lectures to the prevalence of definitions and theorems. The number of Russian words also increases at practical classes. Their introduction is based on drawings (topic «Analytical geometry»), graphs («Introduction to mathematical analysis», «Definite integral »). The laboratory works are of the greatest interest, of course, where students must draw conclusions about the suitability of the formula obtained as the experiment result. The article details the methodological features of organizing various types of classes using multimedia tools and electronic textbooks in groups with cadets from the CIS countries.