Modern approaches to developing foreign language written competence (exemplified by the scientific discourse of foreign students)

the development of written scientific competence in students holds an important place in the process of teaching Russian for foreigners. This is based on the expectation that university graduates should be able to produce speech utterances in accordance with linguistic, ethical, and other norms, and also master methods for solving communicative tasks in various situations, including those of a scientific style. The article examines contemporary practices for developing foreign language written competence in Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) classes. It is worth noting that a significant portion of the works on this topic address individual aspects of the linguistic features of scientific texts, particularly their grammatical and lexical characteristics. However, there is a discernible lack of methodological guidelines that include a description of the actions of both the instructor and the student at each stage of teaching academic writing. This defines the relevance of the present article, the aim of which is to provide a brief overview of works published between 2015 and 2025 that discuss various aspects of teaching the fundamentals of stylistics, particularly the scientific style, in undergraduate and graduate RFL courses. Having analyzed this material, we have identified two representative groups of methodologies that appear promising for further development of the issue of fostering scientific writing skills in a foreign language audience. Materials in the first group focus on the linguistic features of scientific-style texts, accordingly providing descriptions of specific techniques for working on the vocabulary and grammar of a scientific text. We classify into the second group those studies that reflect the stages of working with various information blocks in a scientific text, enabling the foreign student to acquire skills for the step-by-step creation of scientific discourse in Russian.

Russian as a foreign language, scientific style, academic writing