Shaping the environmental consciousness of international engineering students in class Russian language

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of forming ecological consciousness of foreign students of technical universities at the classes on Russian as a foreign language. The article gives definition of ecological consciousness; methods of formation of competence of a future engineer as a specialist, who is aware of the necessity to observe ecological principles in his work, are studied. The statistics of student polls on environmental problems is given. Reading texts on environmental topics, preparation of monologic statement on the theme “Environmental problems of our time”, holding a discussion club, preparation of scientific reports on environmental issues, participation in an imitation role-playing game, participation in events of the university, devoted to environmental protection, help to realize the importance of the problem and the need to solve it in the professional activity of a technicalspecialist.