ОБУЧЕНИЕ МАГИСТРОВ ИНЖЕНЕРНОГО ПРОФИЛЯ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ АНАЛИЗА АУТЕНТИЧНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ

Abstract

The article discusses peculiarities of teaching a professional foreign language to masters of engineering profile and draws the need to use authentic texts in the process of preparing students for scientific research. Building skills of analytical work with authentic texts is considered to be one of the principal means of masters’ professional training, and the problem of text selection and competent organization of working with it is becoming a key target when teaching to read. The main selection criterion is a professionally relevant authentic text containing new and important information for master students as such texts stimulate learners’ language activity. The information provided may become the material to analyze in the theoretical part of master thesis, to write a scientific article, to prepare conference presentation, etc. Working with authentic texts requires hard work but contributes to the development of skills to find and critically process information, consider the foreign engineering experience, independently set and solve scientific problems, develop scientific methods (comparative, analytical, phenomenological, etc.). Competent organization of classroom and individual work of master students with authentic texts is the basis for effective learning.