Problems Of Teaching Professional Communication To Chinese Hydrotechnical Engineering Students

Abstract

In the article the experience in teaching the Russian language to Chinese hydrotechnical engineering students of senior courses under a bachelor's program in order to teach them professional communication at the courses of Russian as a foreign language at Russian State University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy is considered. Programs and manuals addressed to this category of students are analyzed, the principles of creating a new tutorial are developed. In chapter “Problem Statement” special features of the scientific speech referred to profile “Hydrotechnical Engineering”, which includes elements of terms systems of mechanics, geography, hydrology, economics, and other sciences, are described. Also, some information about the experience of working with Chinese students in Shandong Hydrotechnical Institute where students are educated at junior courses, and about specific features of the education system of China is given. Using the methods of observation, analysis of linguistic and methodical literature on teaching scientific speech to foreigners, study of national features of students from the People’s Republic of China, and summarizing the working experience, in particular, approbation of fragments of a new tutorial, the authors revealed a number of tasks of optimizing the educational process, including the task of improving a new manual. Functional communicative approach to education, step-by-step material study with reliance on visual perception, tasks developing communication skills were recognized as the main principles. The necessity to improve a new study manual is determined, and practical working results of the Russian language courses are presented.