TWO APPROACHES TO READING BELLES- LETTRES TEXTS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article is devoted to teaching students of higher education reading skills. It focuses on the process of reading belles-lettres in the course of studying a foreign language and the teacher's strategies aimed at working with this type of text. The author of the article describes two approaches to reading artistic texts: the writer-biased approach and the reader-biased approach. The latter places the personality of the reader in the center of the reading process while the former centers on the creator of the text. In the article, it is argued that reading fiction is based on the multi-leveled process of communication between writer and reader. The author of the article outlines the five levels of this type of communication which should be paid attention to and followed when reading artistic texts. The author of the article gives an algorithm of work with artistic texts within the reader-biased approach, which helps both improve the process of foreign language learning and develop students' understanding of themselves and expressing their personalities.