The Concept of Educative Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language in Modern Social Conditions: Tradition or Transformation?

The authors of the article focus on the actualization of the issue of the current status, concept, content and ways of implementing educative teaching of Russian as a foreign language in the context of new social challenges.
Through the method of historical retrospect, the process of development (from an ideological and methodological point of view) and the formation of "education" as an integral element of a complex technology of teaching first native and then foreign languages is traced. Based on a comparative analysis of the place and role of socio-cultural competence in mastering speech activity in a non-native language (in our case – Russian), as well as as a result of studying the degree of realization of the educational aspect in modern textbooks on Russian as a foreign language, it is concluded that there is a tendency to replace the educational function of the pedagogical process with a communicative or general educational one (up to leveling the first one), which directly determines the need to develop a new methodological strategy for creating textbooks of Russian as a foreign language.
As a potentially adequate to the formulated request, a new author's method is proposed – Casual illustrated narrative (CIN), – successfully tested in teaching Russian to foreign speakers representing various ethno–cultural communities, both inside and outside Russia – in the linguo-pedagogical work of teachers of language schools / universities of China, Italy, USA, and providing, from the point of view of the authors, the principle of using the ternary system necessary for the implementation of the concept of educative teaching – communicative, general education, educational – system-forming logic.
The results of the study may be of interest in the linguo-didactic understanding of the problems of educative teaching of foreign languages in a broad perspective, as well as used in the theoretical and practical development of new technologies for creating educational tools in Russian as a foreign language.

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