CREATING THE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS TO FLIP YOUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM (TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

When do we actually need to flip the foreign language classrooms? And how to do that properly? How to create the effective tools for that? This paper explores reasons to choose the flipped learning strategy for your foreign language classroom, such as reduced curriculum, diverse level of student's progress, extensive grammar of the language you teach and more. The article describes the flipped model of teaching Russian as a foreign language and reveals the main principles for creating the most effective flipped learning tools. Authors emphasize that despite the common popularization of technology-based training tools both online and printed materials are important for the flipped strategy learning. Such materials - accordingly to the idea of the research - should be interrelated and complement each other, also should be organized and designed in a certain way. The teaching and learning tools developed by the authors have proven their efficiency in multinational and diverse level groups of foreign students who study Russian language in intensive immersion program.