Keyword: «regional competence»

The article deals with aspects of text work at the lessons of regional studies and Russian as a foreign language, which are tools for foreign students` socio-cultural adapting. The author exposes the educational material about the disease and the city in which a foreigner is studying as a necessary element of socio-cultural adaptation. We describe the experience of guide development of regional studies, aimed at forming regional communicative competence. An example of text analysis containing the regional study information is given.