On Future Engineers’ Communicative Capability Extension Through Training Secondary Texts Creation

Abstract

The article discusses the importance and necessity of owning a foreign language in order to increase the professional awareness and expand the communicative capabilities of a specialist as a result of the growing information exchange in the context of globalization and integration in various spheres of human activity. In the new educational paradigm foreign languages are taught in the light of a competence approach. The goal of teaching foreign languages as itself and in a technical University particularly is the formation of communicative competence, the peculiarity of which is not the actual accumulation of academic knowledge, but the study of professional vocabulary, searching and processing scientific information, the implementation of communication on professional topics, that is, implementation of broad professional activities. Communicative orientation of teaching the students of Kapan branch of the NPUA Russian is due to the exploitation of the mining enterprises of the Syunik region by Russian mining companies and the role of Russian for communication at mining enterprises in the region. Teaching the creation of secondary texts pursues an educational goal, which consists of carrying out analytical and synthetic processing of information and presenting the material in a structurally transformed form. Thus, creating a secondary text acts as a means of communicative competence formation. The ability to create secondary text facilitates the constructing of literate and logically constructed speech not only in a foreign language but also in the native language, the formation of communicative and linguistic competence, the development of critical thinking.