ON THE WORK WITH OLD RUSSIAN TEXTS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OLYMPIAD TASKS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Olympiads for schoolchildren allow a single educational space to realize the opportunities of self-development and personal growth that are relevant for modern schoolchildren, the development of motivation for learning and the formation of directed cognitive activities that will contribute to their preparation for the corresponding profession. The Russian Language Olympiad, touching on one of the most important subjects in school and the main means of communication of Russian society, aims not only to test the quality of knowledge of the modern Russian language, but also requires a significant expansion of the linguistic space of knowledge about the Russian language and the development of meta-language thinking of schoolchildren. Among the tasks of school Olympiads, the traditional analysis of Old Russian texts is especially distinguished, which fully allows to determine the level of formation among students of linguistic and communicative competence and to identify the ability to non-standard thinking and research skills. The complexity of the tasks on the history of the language causes special difficulties for schoolchildren, in connection with which the article presents the experience of systematic and purposeful work in preparing students for reading and analyzing Old Russian texts.