Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices2618-897X2618-8988Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2511710.22363/2618-897X-2020-17-4-553-561Research ArticleAdapted Fiction in Teaching Russian to Foreign and Bilingual StudentsAfanasievaNina D.<p>Candidate of Pedagogy, a Head of the Department of Russian Language</p>afan-nina@yandex.ruZakharchenkoSvetlana S.<p>Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language</p>sveta.zakharchenko@gmail.comMogilevaIrina B.<p>Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language</p>mogilevairina@yandex.ruMoscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation1512202017455356102122020Copyright © 2020, Afanasieva N.D., Zakharchenko S.S., Mogileva I.B.2020<p>The article is devoted to the problems of adaptation of literary texts, reading of which helps foreign and bilingual students to develop linguistic, speech, socio-cultural, and communicative competence at the Russian language lessons. The authors give examples of techniques and analyze methods of adaptation which were used by the teachers of the Russian language Department at MGIMO-University working with texts by A.Pushkin and M.Lermontov.</p>adaptationtransformationcommentingbackground knowledgelinguistic picture of the worldадаптированиечитательская компетенциятрансформациякомментированиефоновые знаниякартина мира[Russkij yazyk v nacional’noj shkole: Problemy lingvodidaktiki. 1977. Ed. by N.M. Shanskiy, N.Z. Bakeeva. Moscow: Pedagogika. Print. (In Russ.)][Slesareva, I.P. 2010. Problemy opisaniya i prepodavaniya russkoj leksiki. Moscow: URSS. Print. (In Russ.)][Pervuhina, S.V. 2014. “Vidy adaptacii teksta”. Vestnik Yuzhno-Ural’skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya: Lingvistika 11(1): 97—100. Print. (In Russ.)][Kulibina, N.V. 2001. “Hudozhestvennyj tekst v lingvodidakticheskom osmyslenii”. Doctoral Thesis. Moscow. Print. (In Russ.)][Potemkina, E.V. 2015. “Kommentirovannoe chtenie hudozhestvennogo teksta v inostrannoj auditorii kak metod formirovaniya bilingval’noj lichnosti”. Candidate Thesis in Pedagogical Sciences. Moscow. Print. (In Russ.)][Ruzhickij, I.V., and E.V. Potyomkina. 2013. “Problema formirovaniya bilingval’noj lichnosti v lingvodidaktike”. Mir russkogo slova 2: 81—90. Print. (In Russ.)][Rozental’, D.E., and M.A. Telenkova. 1972. Spravochnik lingvisticheskih terminov: posobie dlya uchitelya. Moscow: Prosveschenie. Print. (In Russ.)][Kulibina, N.V. 2013. “Adaptirovat’ nel’zya ponyat”. Russkij yazyk za rubezhom 5: 23. Print. (In Russ.)][Formirovanie i ocenka kommunikativnoj kompetencii bilingvov v processe dvuyazychnogo obrazovaniya. 2012. Ed. by Yurkov E.E. SPb. Print. (In Russ.)][Strel’chuk, E.N. 2011. “Rol’ hudozhestvennoj literatury v formirovanii i razvitii russkoj rechevoj kul’tury inostrannyh studentov”. Izvestiya Samarskogo nauchnogo centra Rossijskoj akademii nauk 2 (5): 1135—1139. Print. (In Russ.)][Afanas’eva, N.D., A.V. Burobin, and Zaharchenko S.S. 2015. Chitaem Pushkina vmeste («Povesti Belkina»): ucheb. posobie dlya studentov-inostrancev po obucheniyu russkomu yazyku. Moscow: MGIMO–Universitet. Print. (In Russ.)][Afanas’eva, N.D., and A.V. Burobin. 2019. Podgotovka teksta i zadanij. Lermontov M.Yu. Knyazhna Meri. SPb.: Zlatoust. Print. (In Russ.)]