Introduction. This article is devoted to the problem of using visual supports for the formation of foreign language faculties’ students’speech skills in multicultural environment. The purpose of the article is to specify the possibilities of conceptual solutions for presenting information in the form of visual supports in the process of teaching foreign language, taking into account psychological, cognitive, aesthetic factors and memo-factor. The authors consider a number of factors for the correct selection of visual supports in order to form speech skills and suggest didactic solutions for their use in the process of teaching foreign languages in higher education.

Materials and methods. The following research methods are presented in the article: review of Russian and foreign scientists’ works as well as regulatory and legislative acts of the Russian Federation in the field of education; determining the efficiency of factors for the correct selection of visual supports for verbal texts, as well as identifying the level of speech skills’formation among students of the faculty of foreign languages through diagnostic techniques such as observation, questionnaires, testing and data processing methods.

Results. Many years of experience in teaching at the Faculty of Foreign Languages allows us to make sure that the systematic use of visual supports in the process of forming speech communication skills removes difficulties of the speech generating process in a foreign language and provides significant assistance to students in solving the communicative problem. Along with this, visual supports facilitated the exchange of value orientations among students of different ethnic and cultural groups, which was the basis for development of students’intercultural competence at a higher level.

Discussion. In modern pedagogical science, there is the fact that the process of learning a foreign language cannot be imagined without the use of visual supports, which not only intensify the students’ mental activity, but also activate speech skills, which guarantees a faster transition to fluent speaking.

Conclusion. The use of visual supports as a longitude in the process of teaching foreign language demonstrated clearly that the students of the experimental group, in which the didactic emphasis was focused on the combination of verbal texts and visual supports, removed the difficulties of verbal communication in the studied foreign language, increased the level of readiness for acquaintance with a foreign language culture and, therefore, intercultural competence was formed at a higher level.

The role of visual supports for removing barriers in solving a communicative problem in the process of forming foreign language facultiesstudents’speech communication skills has been revealed;

Factors of influence of visual supports on students are determined, namely, the factor of psychological impact, cognitive factor, aesthetic factor, memo-factor;

The criteria for the selection of visual supports for a more visual illustration of the verbal text’scontent are analyzed;

The role of visual supports for the cultural and value exchange between representatives of different ethnic and cultural groups and their readiness for integration in a modern multicultural society is revealed.

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