Interview as a development tool of students’ language skills (on the example of the extra curricular student project "German Russia" at the department of media linguistics, faculty of journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The article examines the methodological potential and advantages of an interview as an educational tool in terms of the development of language skills and intercultural competence of students-journalists. The author presents the experience of her own project training method, carried out in 2017-2019 as a part of extra-curricular project activities at the Department of Media Linguistics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. From a methodological point of view, such characteristics of the genre as a dialogical nature, the interaction of informational and manipulative communicative strategies, the role of interviews in representing national-cultural and individual ideas about the world are considered. The integrated approach used in the work includes the methods of linguistic, linguoculturological, contextual and methodological analysis. The form of organization of the educational interview deliberately creates and immerses students in a special social environment that refects the specifc characteristics of the diversity of cultures - a multicultural educational space. Representations of extra-linguistic reality are materially expressed in the text at all levels of speech organization: words (language signs), groups of words (phrases, sentences), text, set of texts. The format of the educational interview allows students to improve their knowledge of speech formulas adopted in this culture in a specifc situation of verbal communication, and, consequently, to develop their intercultural competence. In a dialogue with native speakers of a different culture and language, students learn to recognize the similarities or differences in ideas that exist within the Russian national culture with the ideas of native speakers of another culture, interpret new aspects in the cultures studied, and to be open to assessing their culture through the norms and values of another ethnic group.