Abstract
The role of foreign languages is constantly growing in the system of higher education in logical connection with the growing demands to foreign language competence for social success of the university graduates. In 2012, European commission issued a document called ‘Language competences for employability, mobility and growth’ (2012) underlining a new idea that language competences are directly connected with future employability. In the Russian system of higher education, we should also follow this direction and develop new models of effective teaching foreign languages. The paper presents the results of the senior students’ experimental training in the written academic discourse the competence in which is in high need in different spheres of labour market. In the paper, the authors consider the features and characteristics of the essay as one of the most popular genres of the written academic discourse. The authors developed and described three new models of teaching academic discourse with methodologically approved combination and integration of massive online courses (MOOCs) and traditional language teaching based on the theoretical study conducted in the paper: complementary, supporting and mixed, the latter was tested in the course of the experiment. The results of experimental training are discussed in this paper.
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