The article covers the simulation of a pedagogical strategy for forming skills to produce a monologic discourse based on reference prediction units. The purpose of the research was to identify optimal ways to form cognitive mechanisms for a monologic Russian-language discourse expansion with a rigid structure, primarily academic and academic-vocational, discourse in international students. Besides, it enables students to successfully predict and expand descriptive texts/discourses on various

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... ics after one or two months. As a prospect for studying cataphoras in linguodidactics, let us note the following differentiation of student categories as an important point: extroverted students/introverted students.