Integration of Communicative and Interactive Methods in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

This article presents an integrative review of current research on the combination of communicative and interactive methods in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The relevance of this topic is determined by the changing goals of language education: teaching Russian as a foreign language is increasingly less limited to mastering grammatical structures and basic vocabulary, as the central outcome is the learner's ability to engage in real-life verbal interactions, understand the sociocultural context, use digital resources, and solve communicative problems in educational, professional, and intercultural situations. It has been found that the integration of communicative and interactive methods is most productive when learning is structured around the speech situation, learning interaction, authentic material, digital support, and reflection on communicative experience.