Teaching the culture of speech to foreign students on the basis of texts about the aesthetics of the Russian language

The subject of the research is the analysis of the study by foreign students of texts about the aesthetics of the Russian language in the classroom for the development of oral and written speech. The purpose of using such texts is the development of the culture of speech of foreign students, the development of their aesthetic speech ideal, communication skills, interests, feelings, emotions. In the process of such work, foreign students get acquainted with the Russian language worldview, they have a desire to study the Russian language more seriously and deeper, learning its wealth, beauty and grace. The methodic principles of working with these types of texts are described, a detailed analysis of the pre-text, text and post-text analysis of the text by K.G. Paustovsky in the classroom with foreign students with a level of Russian language proficiency B1-B2. The relevance of working with texts on the aesthetics of the Russian language and speech in the classroom on Russian as a foreign language is substantiated, since it contributes to the development of language knowledge, skills and abilities of students, forms their cultural competence, artistic thinking, the desire to speak Russian, relying on aesthetic samples from the studied texts. The research results can be used in practical classes with foreign students in the process of teaching the following training courses: “Development of oral and written speech”, “Russian literature”, “Practice of speech communication”, “Corrective vocabulary course”, “Speech etiquette”, “Russian culture”, etc.