Problems of drawing up and solving multi-level tasks for Russian language competitions

   The article presents the results of our study of certain aspects of working with gifted children, in particular, their preparation for linguistic competitions in Russian as a non-native language, and methods and techniques for doing linguistic competition tasks. By using descriptive, observation, semantic-stylistic, qualification, design and creative methods, the article describes traditional questions and tasks in the Russian language tests providing a number of original tasks and questions, which require linguistic creativity and logical operations, and gives possible answers. It is emphasized that the development of original and universal solutions, involving modern pedagogical technologies, the formation of students’ scientific thinking, their scientific understanding of key theories, types of relationships and their knowledge of scientific terminology, key concepts, and creative tasks and linguistic intuition, contribute to the development of schoolchildren’s linguistic personality and self-actualization, which will have a positive impact on their future professional career thanks to the meta-subject skills. The study is based on the results of our direct practical work in the Yelabuga “University School” with 30 children undergoing special training in the bilingual Republic of Tatarstan. The first stage of the study results was the publication of the educational and methodological manual “Preparing for the Russian Language Competitions” (Yelabuga, 2021), the second - the bachelor final qualifying works on the topic.

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