The monograph examines and defines the key role of an educational art text in teaching foreign language to students of philology (on the example of teaching Russian as a foreign language). This work emerged on the basis of modern theoretical knowledge from the field of text theory, cognitive linguistics, sociology, culturology, pedagogy and some issues of psycholinguistics. Personal teaching experience of working with foreign audiences allowed to point out the effectiveness of using a new interdisciplinary approach in teaching in order to form in future specialists linguocultural competence, which implies the mastery of linguistic personality skills of intercultural and interpersonal communication, perception and affect. The book is addressed to methodologists-philologists, students - future teachers of a foreign language, and also to all who are interested in questions of teaching a non-native language.