“Adaptive Linguistic Course” As Effect And Cause Of Educational Innovations

Abstract

The paper examines the purposes, tasks, structure and content of “Adaptive Linguistic Course”, which was caused by the transfer of Russian education from a one-level system to a multilevel one. At present there is a professional and educational gap between a “non-linguistic” Bachelor’s degree program and a “linguistic” Master’s degree program. The course is an optional discipline in Master’s degree curriculum for Bachelors of non-linguistic fields. The author analyzes the significance of the course for Master’s degree students without basic professional education. The general purpose of Adaptive Linguistic Course is formation of language and academic cognition competences of the students. The course provides Master’s degree students with practical skills of complex analysis of authentic texts combining with the language theory knowledge. The small number of academic hours demands a special innovative approach to the course structure and content, as well as teaching techniques. The author focuses on using information-educational environment as basis to improve teaching of the course. The innovation of the used approach lies in the combination of accurate structurization of this interdisciplinary course, the considered selection of the teaching content, the complex (synchronic, diachronic and extralinguistic) atttude to studying basic phenomena of the foreign language, modern linguo-didactical technologies in the teaching process, intensive unsupervised work of Master’s degree students.