Journalistic Texts in Training Russian as Foreign Language Genre-Orientation Approach

This paper explains the use of journalistic texts on foreign language lessons. The contribution of journalistic texts to realization of the purposes of training is characterized. Need of continuous updating of methodical materials in journalistic texts is approved in the paper. For the first time authors suggest using in work with foreign students’ genres of modern Russian Language internet mass-media ‘travel sketch’ and ‘politic comment’. In this paper the role of genres in formation of foreign-language skills is described; the genre-orientation system of work with the journalistic text is presented.