The article is directed at research of professional education competitiveness problem under the conditions of the international educational integration. The essence of competitiveness of professional education is revealed in it and such components as: competitiveness of specialty and higher educational institution, competitiveness of vocational training, competitiveness of educational services, competitiveness of a student, competitiveness of a graduate and competitiveness of an expert are also revealed here. The purposes and tasks are presented in the article, the features of competitiveness of professional education are revealed, and also factors of competitive participation of the Russian professional education at the international market of educational services are defined.

Many Russian and foreign researchers note the inability to apply theoretical knowledge in practice, the gap between theory and practice in the context of university studies as one of the reasons of difficulties in the implementation of young teachers' professional activities. The competence approach implemented in the education system of Russia today offers a solution to this problem through the formation of special, general and key competencies. Primary school teachers' professional competence also includes a range of private methodological competencies. One of these competencies is linguistic and methodological, which ensures a teacher's readiness to teach the Russian language to primary school students. Often the value of particular methodological competencies is underestimated. In this article, the importance of linguistic and methodological competence in ensuring the achievement of a new quality of education is revealed through the comparative analysis of two lessons. The purpose of this article is to define strategies and develop tactics for the formation of elementary school teachers' linguistic and methodological competence in the context of continuous pedagogical education. The leading method of the research was a pedagogical experiment conducted among students and primary school teachers. The article describes the main stages of the experiment, presents the tactics of cognitive and projective strategies implementation in the context of university training for bachelor's students -future primary school teachers, and advanced courses for primary school teachers. Digital educational resources, distance learning modules, activity-related educational technologies are considered as the main tools and tactics. The materials presented in the article allow increasing the effectiveness of teachers' professional activity in the field of language education. Keywords: linguistic and methodological competence; language education of younger schoolchildren; strategies and tactics of linguistic and methodical training of students and primary school teachers; digital educational resources; distance learning.

The capacity to work with text is becoming increasingly vital in the modern world. Text skills are now seen as ubiquitous, influential, and intellectual. This article analyzes the educational standards and curricula used in Bulgarian and Russian schools at the elementary general education level as they relate to the formation of textual skills for students in primary school. Additionally, the paper presents the results of a study that looked at the development of text skills among younger students from Bulgaria and Russia. The authors employed a variety of methods, including theoretical analysis, experiment design, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of the experiment outcomes. One-hundred and two Bulgarian and Russian primary school children participated in the study. The research findings may be of interest to scientists and practitioners in the field of teaching native languages and literature.

The professionalism of modern teachers is determined by the level of their proficiency in various competencies. In the paradigm of professional skills necessary for native language teachers working at the primary educational stage, textual competence is the key. The study of textual competence is currently one of the topical areas of linguistics and linguodidactics. Researchers consider textual competence in general theoretical and private applied aspects, from the point of teaching native or foreign languages. In this context, the article is focused on the researching the pragmatic and applied aspects of textual competence formation among future primary school teachers. The aim of the research is to develop tools for monitoring students' textual competence, to determine the rate of the competence formation. The leading research method was pedagogical experiment, in which 228 students took part: 159from Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen and 69from Kazan Federal University. To indicate the level of students' textual competence development, the study selected four actions with the text: reception, analysis, editing, and linguistic tasks. The conducted study allows us to identify trends in practice (in linguistic and methodological aspects) in the context of teachers' competence training, in particular the ones who will teach the Bulgarian/Russian language (as a native) in primary school; and to determine the main areas of work to improve students' textual competence as a value dominant of modern pedagogical education.

The aim of the article is to reveal peculiarities of implementation of the theme and the image of the "little" person in the stories by Tatyana Tolstaya, show artistic form of interaction with Gogol and Gogol's images according to the particular aesthetics of the writer. Playing with Gogol's characters -Bashmachkin, old-world landowners, using Gogol's chronotope, the composition, the writer translates the classic theme in ironic-parody plan. Neo-romantic orientation of Tolstaya's texts leads to the existence of a particular philosophical component. Postmodern dominant determines the game with "word": citations, intertextuality. Special aesthetic game with the classics allows the writer to convey the nature of the modern era, the cynicism and absurdity.