Using poetry in teaching Russian language in university of Baghdad / faculty of languages

There are many methods of teaching foreign language to nonnative speakers now therefore the discovery of new methods - which make students understand the language , vocabulary saves them as soon as possible – becomes one of the most important duties of teachers and educators . The personal experience shows that the teaching of the Russian language through memorizing Russian poetry is one of the fastest ways to master the language and know its rules and also improve the ability of translating vocabulary and being not able to save the Russian words only , but to make it complete too. Poetry is an article or text which loves by people and enjoy reading it, therefore, using it to teach foreign language has a positive reaction on students. As we mentioned it helps greatly to absorb the language A lot of professors and experts in teaching methods _ specialists in language teaching for foreign students in different grades _ use poetic texts in teaching a foreign language to avoid the boredom in teaching grammar and make it interesting.