Information waves and their textual implementation in media discourse: linguistic and didactic aspects

The article deals with the topical issue of organizing an open communicative media space on the principle of an information field, the dynamics of which are set by information waves. The author of the article focuses on the problem of selecting standard texts when teaching Russian as a foreign language. This selection can be carried out with the base of the theory of information waves. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that for the first time the idea of the hypermedia text is associated with the level approach in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The article is aimed at correlating the concept of the hypermedia text with the formation of discursive competence at different levels of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language. The tasks of the article are to describe typical media texts of different information waves and correlate them with the requirements for the formation of the discursive competence in Russian as a foreign language. The study is based on the methods of functional-stylistic description of functional-semantic types of speech. The result of the study showed that media texts representing an information occasion are narrative texts written in the first person with a typical information structure characteristic of the narrative text, which makes it possible to use them when teaching Russian as a foreign language at the B1 level. The first information wave is implemented in the form of texts that render the information occasion as third-person narrative texts and interview texts, which fits the requirements for the level of discursive competence at the B1 and B2 levels. The second information wave is represented by evaluative comments; these texts can be used at the B2 level. The third information wave includes essays and comments of an inducing nature, which corresponds to the C1 level. Depending on how the evaluative or inducing intention is expressed - explicitly or implicitly - the media texts of the second and third waves can be used to form discursive competence of language proficiency at the B2 or C1 levels. The analysis showed a high linguistic and didactic potential of the concept of the hypermedia text in teaching Russian as a foreign language.