Pedagogical Technology in the Methodology of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: Transformation of the Concept and Author’s Classification

“Pedagogical technology” is one of the actively used concepts of scientific and pedagogical discourse with dozen definitions and interpretations. The aim of the study is to consider pedagogical technologies in terms of their use in Russian as a foreign language classes and to propose the author's classification on the basis of a unified communicatively significant principle, taking into account the various approaches to their interpretation and systematization in methodological science. The research materials included more than 40 definitions of the phenomenon of “pedagogical technology” and about 10 classifications of those technologies. Methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, and comparison were used. As a result, the approaches to pedagogical technologies in domestic and foreign methodological science are systematized; the author’s classification of pedagogical technologies from the position of the communicative principle is proposed. The classification is based on such concepts as speech act/speech action, speech event, and speech genre. Examples of specific pedagogical technologies are given and divided into three groups according to students’ communicative efforts; and the possibilities of combining various technologies and their synergy in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language are shown. The prospects for the research are to create a textbook containing the theoretical foundations for pedagogical technologies integration into the educational process in accordance with foreign speakers’ level of language proficiency and their professional orientation.