The Discourse of the Russian Language Textbook within the Framework of the Communicative Paradigm of Linguistic Education in the 21st Century

The article considers the problem of improvement of modern educational books, which arises from the sociocultural changes, as well as from a whole range of phenomena influencing the modern generation’s personality development. Methods: the content analysis of dissertations, monographs, educational publications; semantical and cognitive analysis of language means, thorough analysis of research works in the field of Russian language teaching, pedagogical observation and ranking. The main findings of the paper: it’s offered ways of content upgrading of Russian language teaching within the language education communicative paradigm of the 21st century. In particular, the author offers three tasks to be solved concerning the axiological aspect of educational content, the developing character of teaching realised according to the graduality principle, and also issues of developing periphrasis and discourse competencies in the process of native Russian language teaching. Conclusions: we present organisation of the systematic work to master periphrasis in studying the key sections of the Russian language course. It will make it possible to focus on the objective of communicative competence development with regard to its components – the discourse competence and periphrasis skills of the learners.