Musical Moscow Region: from the experience of working with texts about music and composers in Russian as a foreign language classes

Abstract. In modern didactic science, it is noted that the formation of communicative competence in students studying a foreign language is impossible without the formation of sociocultural, linguocultural and country studies competences. In this regard, at all stages of teaching there is a need to refer to texts containing linguocultural information, which certainly include texts about Russian composers. Materials on the biography of Russian composers and their work allow students to expand their knowledge of Russian history, to understand Russian culture, to form a positive image of Russia and its people. Thus, texts about Russian composers perform the function of cultural adaptation. It should also be noted the high linguodidactic potential of such texts, i.e. the possibility of their use in the study of lexical and grammatical topics in Russian as a foreign language classes. The form of work with such texts is shown on the example of a text about the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Museum in the town of Klin. The variants of tasks aimed at practising and consolidation of vocabulary, separate topics of Russian grammar and development of various types of speech activity are described.

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