Development of modern electronic textbook of Russian as a foreign language: content and technology

The paper considers the features of selecting the teaching illustrative material for the theoretical part of a multimedia textbook on Russian as a foreign language, and describes the peculiarities of compiling a set of exercises on the basis of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The author(s) analysed in detail the difficulties caused by working with the National Corpus of the Russian Language for educational purposes and problems emerged in the process of working on a project aimed at creating an electronic textbook "The Russian verb. Word formation". Technology of electronic textbook was created, which is used for learning foreign language. The helpful tool tip was added in the textbook. It was compounded with grammatical information and English translation for each separated word