Linguistic and didactic description of TORFL-2: Priciples, structure, potential

The article characterizes a linguodidactic description of TORFL-2 and presents the principles of the description, the structure and content of each part. The linguodidactic description of TORFL-2 is based on the principle of text-centricity, as well as the thematic principle of description, reflecting such subject areas as “A Person and His Private / Personal Life”, “A Person and His Educational Activity”, “A Person and His Professional Activity”, “ Man and State”, “Man and Society”, “Man and His Spiritual Development” and “Nature and Man”. In the linguodidactic description, the situations of communication in the social, socio-cultural and official business spheres of communication are selected, taking into account the communicative needs of international students. The linguodidactic description reflects a hypothetical model of the speech behavior of an international student who speaks Russian as a foreign language at level B2. The structure of the linguodidactic description consists of three parts. The first part includes a description of the student’s communicative competence in all types of speech activities in different subject areas. Part 2 contains typical texts and their characteristics. Part 3 describes the content of language competence. The linguodidactic description of B2 determines the scope and content of the communicative competence that a student at level B2 should have, which forms the basis for compiling programs, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as developing test and measuring materials. The linguodidactic description creates an objective basis for creating a bank of test items and their detailed and unambiguous specification.