Abstract
The article considers some contextual, interdisciplinary and linguistic aspects of developing non-linguistic students’ speaking skills necessary for cross-cultural academic communication, with special attention being paid to the their abilities to master the culture of debating, acquiring specific features of their future profession through learning specialized vocabulary and using a foreign language as an effective tool to reach the professional goals. The proposed strategy of FL communication teaching is rooted in the basics of D. Dorner’s situation integrity’ theory, on the one hand, taking into account discovery patterns of science undergraduates’ educational activity, on the other, and cognitive aspects of academic discourse as well with an emphasis on acquiring professional interlanguage dialogic skills. The proposed course of study is meant to master the professional speaking skills of science undergraduates. The algorithm of teaching has been tested in FL classes with Maths and Physics students of MGOU (Moscow Region State University) during 2019/2020 academic year and obtained the positive approval of FL teaching staff.
Highlights
The rapid growth of globalization along with the apparent recent trend to integration of the key axiological aspects of modern life, i.e. language, cognition, life philosophy and universal cultural human values, exhibit the closer interaction between people of different nationalities, cultures and professional communities as well as diversity in means of expression
The ongoing changes in communicative patterns and their range extension could not but help influencing educational policy and furthering processes of universalization and standardization in professionally oriented instruction [1,2,3,4,5,6]. It is a matter of common knowledge that foreign language teaching for special purposes is directly related to political, economic, social and cultural changes
In academic year 2019/20 the authors carried out a trial FLT course at the faculty of Physics and Maths of MGOU (Moscow Region State University) to test the theoretical considerations mentioned above
Summary
The rapid growth of globalization along with the apparent recent trend to integration of the key axiological aspects of modern life, i.e. language, cognition, life philosophy and universal cultural human values, exhibit the closer interaction between people of different nationalities, cultures and professional communities as well as diversity in means of expression (personal, interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup, mass communication). These types of communication сould take place in different spheres of life from cultural, scientific to recreational and professional. Interdisciplinary studies register the alterations in the value system and its introduction or adaptation into one or another world view [1,7,8]
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