Improving the general culture of students, development of their communicative abilities is the task of the course "Russian language and culture of speech". The article deals with the issues related to the teaching of this discipline in an economic university. Promising at present are such pedagogical technologies that are oriented to the personality of the student, his interests and abilities. The practice of work shows that a flexible model of teaching, combination of traditional and information technologies is necessary. We analyze the experience of using information and computer technologies in teaching speech culture, in particular, we consider the use of information and computer technologies "Prometheus" (testing, virtual discussion and others).
