Generation Z: How does it see the modern Russian language textbook?

   In the coming era of our country’s continuous digitalization, the article highlights the problem of preparing a new generation of Russian language textbooks for general education institutions of the Russian Federation. The Russian language is considered as the highest value of the Russian people’s multinational culture, contributing to the improvement of the primary school students’ intellectual, emotional and cultural level through the formation and development of their theoretical thinking, positive worldview, and traditional cultural values, based on the didactic material of the Russian language textbook addressed to the modern digital generation of students (generation Z).

   The purpose of the work is: 1) to describe modern grades 8-11 (generation Z) students as a subject / user of the Russian language textbook: to identify, based on the analysis of the works of neuropsychologists, linguists, didactic teachers, sociologists, and psychologists, their value orientations,
psychoemotional features, life views, long-term plans for professional activities, and attitudes to the digitalization of zetas; 2) to conduct a survey of the Moscow region main school students in order to identify their attitudes to the current paper / digitized Russian language textbooks and study their proposals for creating future digital ones and analyze the written answers of the students to the question: “What topics of the texts would you like to see in a Russian language textbook?”; 3) to develop criteria for the selection and compilation of authorial texts in new Russian language textbooks.

   The results of the study are as follows: reliable data on the social and psychological well-being of schoolchildren (zetas), belonging to the digital generation, on their perception of the modern Russian language textbook, and their vision of the digital future, its pros and cons; systematized proposals of high school students for the preparation of new digital textbooks; proposed criteria for the selection and compilation of authorial texts on a thematic basis for Russian language textbooks that meet the challenges of digital time and modern tasks of Russian education.

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