Abstract: The relevant topic of teaching foreign-speaking students in the field of modern Russian theater education is discussed. The subject of the research is the speech training of Chinese students-actors within the framework of an experimental Russian–Chinese theater and educational project of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (St. Petersburg) and the Central Academy of Drama (Beijing). The experience of voice and speech training in homogeneous Chinese groups is summarized, the real manifestations of significant ethnopsychological phenomena and the possibility of their use for educational purposes are generalized. The author, a direct participant in the project, analyzes the course and results of the experiment from the position of optimal compliance of the educational process with the identified psychological, mental and national-cultural characteristics of Chinese students-actors.
The novelty of the research lies in the experimental substantiation of the variant of the ethnooriented model of voice and speech training of Chinese students in the Russian theater school, carried out using two languages (Russian and Chinese) in Russia, and then in China. This ensures the consistency and meaning of voice and speech education, the possibility of transferring acquired speech skills into national artistic practice. The result of the study ethnopsychological, mental and national-cultural features were found in practice and affecting the process of voice and speech training. Taking into account and using a combination of these factors implements an ethnopsychological approach to voice and speech training of Chinese students-actors.