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THE PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE CREATIVE STATEMENTS AT TECHNICAL FACULTIES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 3 (192). P. 9-13

The article deals with the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages at technical faculties. It demonstrates the results of studying the issue of communicative asymmetry. The theoretical aspects focus on productive communicative skills. This approach takes into account a variety of exercises associated with creative interpretation and responses of students. Authentic texts take priority. Alternative methods promote to model situations on real communication. It defines comfortable interaction of students: pair work, group work, class work. Group participation is a contemporary and adequate form of collaboration. This kind of activities enables the students to interact with other members and also develops a sense of mutual responsibility and team spirit. Linguistic and functional schemes can be used in order to achieve productive speaking. Selected conversation patterns are very significant in organizing and running discussions: expressing conviction, interrupting, agreeing or disagreeing. The structure includes topic sentences, supporting reasons, concluding re-statements. The article presents the examples of tasks produced according to cognitive interests, individual characteristics of participants. Motivation ranks high. The main purpose of teachers is to inspire. It provides abilities to discuss problems, points of view and advance arguments. This model is proved as the most effective way to improve the current level of speaking skills. It results in creative statements of students and enhances the capability to co-operate and communicate. It brings together perspectives from linguistics, discourse analysis research.

Keywords: foreign language communication, communicative skills, functional schemes, interpretation, creative statements

Conditions for building of language environment in higher educational institutions for nonlinguistic students’ intercultural and professional development // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023. Issue 2 (226). P. 70-76

The purpose of the paper is to consider the key trends of the society transformation into a digital environment and the current conditions that the contemporary reality dictates. The contemporary environment determines the organizational changes within a modern university by searching for new mechanisms and methods for educational process managing when teaching a foreign language to non-linguistic students with an enhanced professional component that can promote forming a new infrastructure and consequently a new language environment via professional interpersonal communication. The research ambition is to explore the conditions for the formation and development of a new infrastructure within a multicultural educational environment; how this educational environment responds to newly emerging challenges and what makes us rethink the paradigm of the existing educational language environment in the university. Therefore, it follows that the concept of creating a new favorable intercultural educational environment is important for modern universities, particularly in a multilingual and multicultural university environment. The main task for finding mechanisms to manage the process of teaching a foreign language in a modern university is their subsequent transformation and, as a result, the formation and development of a new special language environment, which can be formed under specially created conditions in order to increase the efficiency, reliability and quality of professional education. Moreover, the formation of a language environment within the university context in the process of teaching a professional foreign language to non-linguistic students on a new basis allows us to change the logic of learning processes. It makes us to move to new forms of learning, including online learning, based on the introduction of digital technologies, taking into account personal and professional development and interdisciplinary features. In the paper, the authors propose to consider the conditions for the development of a favorable educational environment within the concept of “Big University”, where the key element is the linguodidactic urban environment with active language practice. There is an assumption that the digital transformation, taking place in education as part of a change in the philosophy of foreign language teaching will somehow increase the professional component of students, including their skills and abilities, due to accessibility with the help of the use of professional interpersonal communication within a foreign language urban environment. The paper provides a number of examples of successful projects that encourage attracting both domestic experts, including the current faculty, and foreign professors as well as students of bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate degrees.

Keywords: language environment, educational environment, Big University, intercultural environment, students’ professional development