Infographic text as a tool for organizing Russian-language educational discourse

Abstract

Importance. The significance of the subject matter arises from the potential for organizing effec tive foreign language communication based on contemporary methods of educational materials’ visual representation, one of which is infographic – a relevant, authentic material that presents in formation in a concise and comprehensible form, integrating verbal and non-verbal elements.Materials and Methods. The following methods are used: analysis of academic research on the infographic text application in teaching foreign languages and practical experience generalization with the use of such materials in Russian as a foreign language. The research materials included academic papers that provided methodological justification for the infographics use as well as infographic materials available online and personal experience gained from utilizing infographic texts within the educational process.Results and Discussion. Based on the material analysis results on the topic, it is concluded that there is a significant potential for using infographic text with supporting structures in Russian as a foreign language teaching. In this regard, the theoretical knowledge necessary for a teacher to or ganize productive speech activity in a foreign language is described: the main stages of organizing work with infographics, the requirements for the of infographics content are listed.Conclusions. Infographic texts are valuable methodological material in teaching foreign lan guages, around which a foreign language educational discourse is built. Methodically, the tradi tional pre-text, pre-text and post-text tasks for working with the educational text should be orga nized competently. Here, support structures are important, which stimulate speech activity, con tributing to the effective work organization on the oral and written speech production based on a given algorithm.