Developing Communicative Competence as the Goal of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (B2–C1 Levels)

The article dwells on developing communicative competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language at levels B2 - C1, focusing on the differences in levels, considering the main difference - processing explicit information at level B2 and implicit information at level C1. The author supplies types of activities, aimed at developing skills of linguistic and discourse components of communicative competence based on the materials of textbook “In the World of People. Issue 3.2”.