FORMING LEARNERS’ PRACTICAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

Authors
E.I. Choporova, N.N. Serostanova
Affiliation
Voronezh Institute of High technologies, Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Interior
Выпуск 34
Pages
138-155

One of the major requirements of publishing research papers in international journals is writing abstracts in English. The contradiction is the discrepancy between the language and composition means used in abstracts of Russian and foreign scientific journals. The authors of the paper have conducted a comparative analysis of the English-speaking and Russian-language abstracts of scientific technical texts. Research papers and abstracts from journals included in the international citation databases have been used.

The authors have chosen such research methods as analogy and comparison in order to identify similarities and differences in the sources analyzed. The most common lexical and grammatical units and language connectors that constitute the main compositional and semantic structure of such types of texts are revealed. The authors point out  the necessity of forming a special type of communicative competence of learners – "reconstructive and reproductive" while teaching an academic English course, emphasizing the need for having particular skills of reading and writing professionally oriented scientific texts. At the same time, teachers have to organize learning process in an appropriate way: they act as consultants, and learners choose and use relevant language patterns themselves.

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Choporova, E.I., & Serostanova, N.N. (2019). Forming learners’ practical skills and abilities in foreign language academic activity. Issues of Applied Linguistics, 34, 138-155. doi: https://doi.org/10.25076/vpl.34.07
 

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