Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The relevance of the article is caused by the necessity to form the linguacultural competence of foreign students studying Russian language that corresponds to the Contemporary didactics of foreign language teaching. The case (precedent) texts are considered as one of the main means of linguacultural orientation used in practices of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The necessity to study the case (precedent) texts in this way is defined by its active use in language and by the presence of cultural component determining the valuable priorities of Russian vision of the world. Therefore, the assimilation of case (precedent) texts as actively used language elements of Russian culture is the most important principle of developing the communicative competence. The aim of this work is the attempt to describe the case (precedent) texts, acting as key material in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The article reveals the specificity of case (precedent) texts in the context of national culture, it also identifies and analyses their formal and semantic features, the peculiarities of perception of the case (precedent) texts by foreign students. The researching results of the peculiarities of the case texts that are used in the process of studying and teaching Russian as a foreign language, allow drawing the conclusion that the efficiency of assimilation of the considered units is caused by knowledge of their structure and semantics, by understanding the values, determined by them