Abstract
The article gives a brief description of some peculiarities of the work with popular scientific and technical literature in a non-linguistic university. Given types of exercises and materials demonstrate the variety of forms and methods of the work with foreign texts in specialty in technical universities. The role of choosing methods and techniques of the work when forming skills of productive reading and their improvement at all stages of learning a foreign language is considered. Reading is considered to be as one of the most important types of communicative and cognitive activity. Reading promotes mastering all aspects of foreign language and speech activity. Some of the issues are analysed both in theoretical and practical terms.
Highlights
It should be noted that reading foreign language literature is one of the main sources of information when students prepare reports, write essays, term papers and theses
Reading is the most accessible and at the same time promotes the mastery of all other aspects of a foreign language and types of speech activity
The main task of teaching reading in a foreign language is to achieve the highest result – reading without translation and the development of the ability to read consciously; formation of reading skills and development of skills to fully and accurately understand the content of the read text, i.e. to learn reading skills, and to be able to use them in other activities of students
Summary
Reading aloud is used as a means of controlling the student's ability to recode visual signals into sound at the level of words, sentences, text. The process of understanding the main idea of the author is determined only by the needs of personal clarification and assimilation of the read text by the reader.
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