Abstract
Modern education sets the task of taking into account the interests and requests of students, searching for effective forms of organizing the educational process. This article examines the possibilities of organizing group work in Russian language classes using Dalton technology. Dalton as a technology is based on a humanistic concept and involves individualization of learning. Dalton is considered as one of the modern teaching technologies, which is based on the organization of group educational and cognitive activities of students. The activity-based approach to learning involves such an organization of the educational process in which the main place is given to active and diverse independent cognitive activity of students in obtaining new integrated knowledge. The discipline «Russian language» at the university, as one of the general educational ones, solves the problem of developing communicative competence in future specialists - the ability to analyze and process information, create texts of various genres and styles, and coherently present material on professional topics. Examples of lesson fragments using Dalton technology in teaching Russian to students majoring in «Education» are given. Using the material of studying the topic «Annotation. Types of annotations», forms of group work in Russian language classes in a university auditorium are considered. The organization of group educational and cognitive activities using Dalton technology for students is considered as a personality-oriented approach in preparing a future teacher for professional activity.