Authentic legal text in Russian as a foreign language classes at the pre-university stage of training

Abstract

The author argues that at the pre-university stage of studying Russian as a foreign language, in addition to general profi ciency, it is supposed to study a separate aspect, namely the language of the future specialty. Using educational materials, depending on the training profi le, the teacher implements the principle of communicative orientation, grounding the process of teaching taking into account the interests of listeners and the material that is communicatively significant for them. In this regard, it is advisable to introduce authentic materials on the language of the specialty into the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language already at the preparatory faculty or department. The problem of using authentic texts in foreign language lessons, including Russian as a foreign language, at the A1-A2 profi ciency levels, has its supporters and opponents. In this article, by analyzing lexical and grammatical structural and semantic blocks, not only the possibility, but also the need to include original texts in the teaching process in the language lessons of the specialty — legal profile — is justified. The author gives an example of working with the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in a lesson on Russian as a foreign language in groups of future lawyers studying at the preparatory faculty. Reading and analyzing the articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the part of “Human and civil rights and freedoms”, students not only get acquainted with the language of the text of the offi cial document, which is the main law of the country, but also may talk about human rights, which means preparation for discussing legal problems in Russian. This work is aimed at the formation of communicative competence in the educational, professional and educational scientific fields of activity in the Russian language of future lawyers.

Keywords:

authentic text, Russian as a foreign language, communicative competence, pre-university stage, educational and professional fi eld of communication, specialty language, legal profile, human rights, Constitution of the Russian Federation