A Text as an Object of the Language, Speech

The program's teachers are a group of professors and associate professors from St. Petersburg State University under the guidance of the Doctor of Philology, Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University K.A. Rogova.

This is a team whose members have been not only engaged in textual research for 30 years, but also daily implement their scientific achievements in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the contact classroom work and in distance learning. It is this experience that they share with colleagues during this program.

- A text as an object of linguistic research. A text in terms of the main text categories. Text categories in teaching Russian as a foreign language and Russian as a native language.
- The type, the genre, and the style of the text. The typology of elementary text units and their structural and semantic complexity. Text units in teaching RFL and RNL.
- Different concepts of speech consistency. Speech consistency in teaching RFL and RNL.
- A text as the highest communicative unit. The text in oral and written speech. A speech standard (stereotype). Standardized texts. Polycode and iconic texts. Standardized, polycode, and iconic texts in teaching RNR and RFL.
- Functional and semantic types of speech and their interaction in the text.
- Oral and dialogic speech. Dialogical (polylogical) speech in teaching RFL and RNL.
- Texts with the dominance of the author’s image. Creativeness as a style-forming trait. Text analysis based on the concept of the author's image.
- Text analysis based on modern techniques and methods of text analysis for the purpose of teaching sensing and composing oral and written texts of different genres and styles.
- The functions of the text in teaching Russian. Principles for the texts selection and tasks preparation supported by the textual typology and learning objectives.

- Lectures by leading experts in the field of the text theory.
- During seminars you will gain relevant skills for studying the text and its methodological interpretation.
- At master classes by the authors of modern textbooks and teaching aids, you will take the position of a student.
- You will develop and defend a group linguistic and methodological project under the guidance of our specialists.

- You will gain the knowledge about a text as the highest communicative unit.
- You will learn to analyze different texts supported by the theory of text categories.
- You will be able to select texts and prepare tasks supported by the textual typology and learning objectives.
- You will fulfill a group project on the examination of texts of different topics and their linguistic and methodological interpretation.