Keyword: «adapted text»

Educational material is the basis of the content of learning a foreign language. The content is specially selected and methodically organized material to be presented and assimilated in the learning process. In the educational process of learning a foreign language, the text is the basis for learning speech activity, it serves as a source of factual and linguistic information. This article describes the criteria for selecting, compiling and adapting an educational text, and compares it with a literary text. The conclusion is confirmed that it is the text that is the source of language and speech material, the means of forming speech skills, the standard sample of a certain type of written speech message used as a basis for building one's own utterance, the source of information.

The article considers the principles of selection of educational texts for classes in Russian as a foreign language and the ways of their linguistic adaptation, necessary to facilitate understanding and adequate perception of texts by foreign students.