RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

We advise to use authentic materials in Russian language teaching as a foreign language. We focus on the textual approach. We give recommendations for methodical selection and literary and poetic text organization to form a foreign language communicative competence. We consider the specificity of communication in a foreign language teaching. The understanding and producing speech in a foreign language is also important. The teacher should have the means to analyze not only the authentic artistic/poetic texts he/she introduces into the teaching but also the texts produced by the students themselves in order to advise, support, assist and consult. The teacher’s aim is firstly to ensure that students are familiar with the maximum number of different texts samples in a foreign language, and then to help them to structure these data, to organize their presentation, and learn the data, to offer different activities using various linguistic and cognitive operations, finally to evaluate and to create conditions for self-assessment of their own communicative competence.