Keyword: «speech mask»

While learning Russian as the native or a foreign language one deals not only with the linguistic problems but with some pragmatic tasks connected to increasingof language proficiency level and creation of communicative skills valid for different situations. Communicative competence is an important component of a harmonic creative personality capable of self-development. Formation of students’ communicative competence is the immediate need because the lack of live experience and the absence of communicative practice in certain social groups don’t let them to choose the adequate language methods for successful communication. Russian language classes within the scope of competent-based approach provide a lot of possibilities for obtaining these results and become the main platform for such work at the non-philological High schools. Analysis of literary characters’ speech masks in Russian prosaic texts is one of the ways of communicative competence formation. A complex of the tasks orientated to the exposing of a character’s speech mask is presented in this article. While making the tasks the student should pay attention to the stylistic and functional characteristics of the words, to the pragmatic information about mutual positions of the characters and to the result of communication. Depending on the whether the students study Russian as the native or a foreign language the tasks can be varied for the different groups. Language practice provides the students with the knowledge about the usage of speech masks in order to reach the goals of communication and it also extends their knowledge on general culture.