The specific features of the development of the learning materials of the Russian language as a foreign language for the Thai students with the use of the virtual language environment

The article deals with the specific features of teaching the Russian language as a foreign language in the Thai universities. On the basis of the experience of the methodologists and the personal observations, the authors describe some peculiarities of the development of the tasks at the authentic materials in the virtual language environment, focused on the development of the communicative competence and social and cultural competence as the component of the communicative competence. The authors suggest the techniques of the work with the offered tasks and define the fundamental difficulties that the students face in the process of their fulfillment.