Literary text as a means of developing communicative competence among students studying Russian as a foreign language

The article is devoted to the problem of modern education, focused on the formation of key competencies, the most important of which is the communicative competence. The article considers the issues related to the development of communicative skills when studying Russian as a foreign language (RCT) and working with fiction literature. The author presents her technique of working with Grishkovets’s story “About Parisians”, which includes including “pre-text”, “text” and “post-text” tasks.