Study of the Aesthetic and Ethical Content of a Literary Text in Russian as a Foreign Language Classes

In the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language when using works of fiction as teaching material, foreign students encounter difficulties in perceiving the text due to its imagery and full of aesthetic and ethical information reflecting the life of the Russian people. The purpose of this study is to consider the ethical and aesthetic load of texts that can be used in Russian as a foreign language lessons, and to offer linguistic and cultural comments to Russian as a foreign language teachers. When working with texts, a suggestive method of mastering artistic images is used, the essence of which is to provide the student with background information that allows removing linguistic and extralinguistic difficulties when reading the text. In the course of working with the text, the attention of foreign students is drawn to linguistic and cultural objects as a reflection of the national and cultural characteristics of the Russian people, a linguistic and cultural commentary is given and the role of these objects in revealing the content of a literary text is determined. The article suggests possible linguistic and cultural objects and comments to them for working with the text. A system of questions and tasks for several program texts is presented, which allows to reveal the ethical and aesthetic information of linguistic and cultural objects and contributing to the formation of linguistic and cultural competence among students, which is the novelty of the work.