The role of transformational text in the development of students’ communicative abilities in Russian as a foreign language

The article deals with the issue of forming the communicative competence of students-inophones in learning Russian as a foreign language based on changes and / or additions (transformation) of the original didactic material. The article contains examples of exercises aimed at text transformation of the prepositive didactic material (language variation patterns) with the help of which foreign students (level of language proficiency on the TRKI-1 and TRKI-2 scales) are invited to create their own modified and/or amended (transformation) text. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the educational capabilities of the prepositive didactic material (language variation patterns) in developing communication skills of foreign students in Russian as a foreign language lessons.