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| 5801 | S. V. Bakhrushin’s works continue attracting the attention of researchers of Siberian history. Until recently his review on Z. Ya. Boyarshinova’s thesis about the Tomsk district has been quoted, only with a positive assessment of the work. But alongside with this the review also noted a number of comments and omissions that still remain littleknown. It becomes clear in the result of the analysis of revealed two variants of the printed review. Consequently, according to their content it is possible to judge about the scientist’s approaches in the work during the writing of the review, the focus of his creative thought while making his adjustments, objective assessment of Tomsk researcher’s manuscript. Keywords: S. V. Bakhrushin, Z. Ya. Boyarshinova, review, history of Siberia, Tomsk district, bibliography, archive | 814 | |||||
| 5802 | The article deals with the peculiarities of language representation of the mental and ethical concept traitor with the help of metaphorical means. The reasons for the benefits of metaphorical means of abstract concept’s representation are given. The survey identifies the anthroponyms associated with the concept traitor in the British conceptual sphere, besides, the peculiarities of their usage as means of verbalization of the studied concept are described. The special attention in the article is devoted to the metaphorical concept Judas that is viewed as an equivalent of the concept traitor. The analysis of the collocations with the word Judas as their cognitive center proves that the concept Judas can substitute the concept traitor, correlates with the common adjacent concepts and acts as an effective way of expressing the evaluating aspect. Keywords: concept, metaphor, metaphorical concept, adjacent concept, allusion-anthroponym | 814 | |||||
| 5803 | The presented scientific work is aimed to show how effective is the use of interactive applications, including ActivInspire in Math lessons in schools of a special type, in this case schools in the colony. This article discusses key characteristics of interactive applications using the example of ActivInspire software. The study of the possibilities of interactive applications is based on the example of one of the most important topics of “Equation”. In addition to the technical features of interactive applications, the psychological aspects of the personality of prisoners in school are also studied and analyzed in detail. On the basis of this analysis, the importance and urgency of using interactive applications in the middle general school in the colony was proved. The described in detail experiment that was conducted in the municipal state educational institution of the evening shift school in Tomsk, clearly shows the growth in the quality of the acquired knowledge on a specific topic “Equations” in the Mathematics class in eighth grades. The conclusion of the article presents and analyzes in detail the experimental results obtained, conclusions about the importance of using interactive applications, including ActivInspire at the lessons of Mathematics in the secondary general school of the penitentiary type. Keywords: ActivInspire, computer technologies, equations, education, schools of penitentiary type | 814 | |||||
| 5804 | The issue of training cadets of military higher educational institutions for the Olympiad in Informatics is under consideration. The nominations of the Olympiad are described and the methodical aspects of training cadets for one of the topics of the first round are described in detail – the use of the MS Word application in solving military-applied problems. Based on the analysis of the Olympiad assignments on computer science of the past years, a classification of tasks has been performed on this topic. The following types of tasks are identified: working with text; work with objects that are not text; execution of the document; automation of mailing; creation of macros and electronic forms. The method of teaching the solution of the selected types of Olympiad problems is described with the help of a set of different levels of difficulty in the exercises. Each subsequent exercise should either be based on the previous one, or repeat the sequence of actions formed in the previous tasks, which allows you to consolidate the result of the previous work. At the same time, in each subsequent exercise, a new action (or several actions united by one group of teams) must necessarily be added, which accentuates the attention of the cadet, thereby contributing to a more meaningful assimilation. Expansion and gradual complication of the set of exercises or the creation of a new sequence of similar tasks allows you to gradually master all the necessary material. A generalization of methodological provisions is made on the basis of which the method of preparing cadets for the speech at the Olympiad in the first round is proposed: it is necessary first to classify tasks for each topic of the tour, then to develop a set of exercises that form the cadet’s free operation with the actions necessary to solve problems of each type. Keywords: olympiad in informatics, methods of training, classification of tasks, set of exercises, formation of actions | 814 | |||||
| 5805 | The article contains the research results of different levels of interpretation and perception of hagiographic texts about saint old man, Fedor Tomskiy, written for children’s readership, recipients of adolescence in Tomsk. The results of experiment are provided according to the horizon of reader’s expectations, to the analysis of which the first part of the article is devoted. The pretext experiment, based on a questionnaire survey among the pupils of Sunday schools and general education schools of Tomsk, had the aim to identify different types of readers, belonging to secular and religious cultures, which affected their ideas of hagiographic genre, phenomenon of sanctity and knowledge of particular saints. The perception of hagiographic works for children by pupils of Sunday schools and general education schools in Tomsk was studied during the second experiment. This research was conducted within the receptive aesthetics which is aimed to study the reader’s response to works and particularities of text’s perception. And the functional reality of work is determined by interacting of the reader and the textual structure. Modern works of art and religion, written for young reader, have different formal and informative levels, modal and value plans. The understanding of difficult textual structure happens only in the process of its specification by recipient. The recipient determines relevance and semantic content of the work, distinguishes emotional and semantic dominant of the text in the process of aesthetic perception. In the course of the experiment, a correlation was found between the reader’s reception of the text and the pretextfactors. The main factor in perception of art and religious text is secular or religious world view. Keywords: hagiography, hagiographic literature for children, Siberian saint, holy old man Fedor, receptive aesthetics, experiment | 814 | |||||
| 5806 | The article describes an experience of the co-operative international educational and scientific activities, fulfilled during the course of the scientific event – VIII international scientific forum «New Forms of International Scientific and Educational Activities». The analysis of the encouraging aspects of the international education over the past ten years is performed. It is shown that the intensive development of the Internet technologies creates favorable conditions for the international distance cooperation for researchers, teachers studying in the education system; student international scientific and educational organizations make it possible to make a significant contribution to the development of the present and future prospects of the global scientific and educational space. It is stressed that the effectiveness of joint scientific and educational activities is influenced by a number of factors, including: a scientifically based organization of a united multi-cultural educational space based on the principles of a psychological-didactic approach to training and education of people from different cultures and with different world views; organization of scientifically grounded conditions for effective practical inter-ethnic interaction, education and professional self-realization. Based on many years of experience working at the international Eurasian adaptation and educational center, the author emphasizes that among the various forms of improving educational work with simultaneous involvement of scientific initiative and creative activity of students, a broad-spectrum interaction system – «International Youth Scientific Forum» is the most effective. Through the example of the VIII International Youth Scientific Forum «New Forms of International Scientific and Educational Activities», once again it is shown that educational system representatives have willingness and ability to organize highly professional inter-groups that can effectively interact in the global polyethnical and polycultural educational space. Keywords: scientific and educational activity, joint activity, scientific forum, multi-cultural educational space, inter-group | 814 | |||||
| 5807 | The six-year experience of cooperation between university and secondary school is uconsidered. The technique of reflexive reconstruction of interaction of participants of the network educational project is used: students, teachers of historical and philological faculty of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, teachers studying in Municipal Autonomous Educational Institution Secondary School no. 14 named after A. F. Lebedev, Tomsk. A plot of the reconstruction is based on the idea of the complexity of the project actions. We are talking about the movement from the normative and executive position of the design participants to the semantic one. It is shown that the first position is related to the implementation in practice of interaction of the state order in the field of integrative (inclusive) education. Within the framework of the second position, the participants implement their own initiatives, design, form an educational reality, the content and forms of which correspond to the challenges of the time. Pedagogical activity is carried out on the basis of personal resource of subjects of cooperation. The design of such a plot of the development of joint activities is considered as a manifestation of a special model of interaction between the University and the secondary school, which the authors, after G. N. Prozumentova, called joint production. The described educational precedents, empirical phenomena typical for this model allow us to see its presence in such forms as a master class, a project conference “Our Mental Values”, a joint educational project “Debates”, an international scientific and practical conference “Science and Education”. The content of this model is also shown by the creation of texts of different types by the participants of interaction: projects, articles, methodological developments, final qualifying works (diplomas, master’s theses). The experience of interaction between the University and the school presented in the article can be regarded as a precedent of educational design – the sphere of activity in which the manifestation, development, formation of the subjectivity of its participants in the context of innovative practice. Innovation is manifested in the phenomenon of personal presence of participants of network interaction (in this case-the authors of the article) in the creation of educational reality. The content of activities in the project can be considered as a variant of pedagogical technologization of the requirements of the new Federal State Educational Standards of the university and secondary school. Keywords: interaction, network educational project, complexity of project action, joint production, quality of education, co-production | 814 | |||||
| 5808 | Introduction. In the modern conditions of the information society, social adaptation of people with deep eyesight impairments depends largely on their information and communication competence. IC competence of people with deep eyesight impairment is considered as an ability to use information and communication technologies in professional, educational, household activities; navigate in the information space; receive and use information with the help of information typhlotechnologies. The purpose of the article is to describe the stages of planning a methodical system for IC competence formation of students with deep eyesight impairments. Material and methods. The research was carried out on the basis of theoretical principles about methodological systems and empirical methods of research. In developing the methodological system, requirements and recommendations were used, based on the clarified concept of information and communication competence of eyesight impaired persons, as well as on the key principles of a competence-based approach to learning. Results and discussion. The stages of planning a methodological system for the formation of information and communication competence of students with eyesight disabilities are presented. The developed methodological system includes the need-motivational, target, informative, operational-activity, effective and controlling components. Particular attention is paid to information typhlotechnologies as compensating means of limiting the visual analyzer. Keywords: methodical system, planning, informational and communication competence, competence, informational and communication technologies, typhlotechnologies, people with deep eye seeing impairments | 814 | |||||
| 5809 | Introduction. The amateurish text is a notable phenomenon of modern mass (not elitist) speech culture. Factors that ensure the promotion of this type of text in the media include the priority of the hedonistic function to the detriment of the cognitive, as well as the interest of society in the public figure, which the media institute provides an opportunity to speak on issues not related to education and profession. The aim of the article is to study the perception of an amateurish text (its content and form) by different groups of recipients. The research issues are aimed at identifying the heterogeneity of mass speech culture by comparing the estimated positions of different recipients of the same text. Material and methods. As an example of amateurish text, the text of the chief editor of a glossy magazine is used, which emphasizes distance from specialists in the field of knowledge (philology) that he discusses. Based on the semantic- stylistic method, speech material obtained in a psycholinguistic experiment, that is, secondary reaction texts, is analyzed. Recipients are divided into three groups: non-specialists from 18 to 44 years old; non-specialists from 50 to 62 years old; students studying in the direction of “Philology”. Results and discussion. It is established that the text broadcasts relatively reliable information (scientific and semiscientific knowledge, a linguistic myth), contains factual errors. An experimental study of evaluative reactions to the text shows that the information transmitted by the text is uncritically accepted by a significant part of the recipients. Non-specialists regard the amateur as a social type depending on age: young participants in the experiment are more loyal to him than senior group recipients. Students who have mastered the problem under discussion in theory and practice speak out sharply negatively about amateur judgments. Assessment of the speech features of the text correlate with the assessment of content. The younger group approves of the humor, accessibility, “ease” with which the information is presented; the senior group notes in the text speech aggression, violation of ethical standards. Philologists in their assessments of the author’s speech style are closer to the older group, that is, more conservative than their peers. Conclusion. Evaluative reactions to one of the varieties of modern mass culture – the amateurish text – allow us to talk about the heterogeneity of this culture, namely the existence of an older and younger communicative norm. The positions of the younger norm in mass speech culture are stronger. This conclusion is based on the fact that the speech features of the source text, which received approval from the younger group recipients, and disapproval of the senior recipients, are considered in modern style as the most striking features of the press as a whole. Keywords: mass speech culture, amateur text, text perception, text assessment, junior communicative norm, senior communicative norm | 814 | |||||
| 5810 | The article deals with a theoretical and methodological way of pedagogical meanings and values of the category of “the virtuous life” in a collection of essays under the title “The philosophy of the common deed” of N. F. Fedorov. Keywords: the category of “the virtuous life”, ethical and pedagogical understanding of a virtuous life | 813 | |||||
| 5811 | The article consideres the image of a woman in german political press of the peacetime. Certain gender stereotypesare established, namely cultural and socially constructed ideas, opinions about the qualities, attributes and norms of behavior in female political poster and advertisements – creolized texts where considerable information about the gender factor, along with verbal means is transmitted by iconic means. Keywords: functions of stereotypes, gender stereotypes, political communication, creolized text | 813 | |||||
| 5812 | In the present paper the problem of ontological immersiveness of soul and time which is formulated through the term extension (“procrastination” M. Heidegger) is examined. Making a study of the problem the author runs back to ancient and Christian philosophical thought and then connects them with anthropological spiritual practices of “concern” about past, present and future. Three types of ontological configurations of time are revealed. The first one is connected with the definition “first” and “last” in the rank of plurality or numeric succession. The second is connected with the presence of qualitative hierarchy “beginning” and “end”, course of time, expiration through priority and linkage between future, presence and past. The third is connected with ontological coming and removal from the time source. Spiritual concern appears as a care about real establishment which is able to bring forth and extend horizon of authentic not illusive being. Keywords: soul extension, time, identical, other, life, eternity, time configuration | 813 | |||||
| 5813 | The major results of the study of land ownership and population dynamics of ufa cossacks in the second half of XVIII – first half of XIX centuries are stated. According to the sources, mounted Cossacks in Ufa have appeared only in 1660-s. Initially Ufa Cossacks used suburban hay lands and pastures on equal terms with other military and serving population of the city. They also had the exclusive right of fishing on the Belaya River within the city for a long time. Analysis of the statistical material showed that over the 1755 to 1844 period staff size of the Ufa Cossacks held constant and came to 150 people, and along with retired Cossacks the population in different years came to 300 Cossacks. Keywords: land ownership, Orenburg Cossack Army, Ufa Cossacks, Ufa, numerical strength | 813 | |||||
| 5814 | The results of investigation of personnel training held at one of the leading high-tech companies in the country – JSC “Information Satellite Systems” named after academician M. F. Reshetnev are listed in the article. Methods of questioning and analysis of statistical reporting were applied during the research. A correlation between the results of training and a labor productivity growth was substantiated, the need for a strategic integration of the enterprise containing the relevant training institutions of secondary vocational education was identified. The prospects of alterations in forms and methods of training are set in order to build personnel competencies. Keywords: vocational training, working personnel, labor productivity, competence, forms and methods of training | 813 | |||||
| 5815 | The paper develops an approach to the assessment of knowledge of students in virtual educational system. For such systems there is an urgent need in finding automated approaches to the assessment of the level of acquired knowledge by students, monitoring of the level of knowledge and their possible management. The mathematical dependence includes three components: interim, assessment, and the level of forgetting. Discusses the mathematical formalism of knowledge assessment. It is shown that for successful learning students need to consider these three components and to predict the learning process, which allows to take into account the individual characteristics of the student. Keywords: software system, training technology, virtual learning | 813 | |||||
| 5816 | The object of the study is the scientific and pedagogic ground for developing the translation competence of technical students under the professional retraining program «Translator in the Sphere of Professional Communication». The focus on stylistic figures shows how the competence-oriented approach can be applied in translation teaching. The work aims at formulating theoretical and practical principles of a competence-oriented methodology in translation teaching. The competence-oriented approach to translation teaching proves to be rational. The communicative functional translation model is the scientific basis of the complex pedagogic technology under consideration. This target technology is pragmatic and involves such pedagogic technologies as communicative training, problem-based learning, development of critical thinking, information and communications technologies, pedagogic games, individualization of education, training in cooperation, modular technology. Stylistic figures represent one of the typical translation difficulties and form a separate training module. Covering this module required formulating the aim, objectives and developmental stages, as well as the list of principal figures of speech. Some illustrative examples given prove the dependence of the translation strategy on the type of the source text. Keywords: competence-oriented methodology in translation teaching, communicative functional translation model, stylistic figures, case-studies, translation strategy, translation transformations | 813 | |||||
| 5817 | This paper examines the issues of forming a qualitative assessment of educational activities in the system of additional professional education of civil servants. The main principles for assessing the quality of educational activity are revealed. The article states that the scientific understanding of estimating the quality of educational services in the sphere of the additional professional training does not yet meet the real needs in practice. The results of the study, which determines the need for additional professional education for civil servants in management, are presented. The relationship between the need for additional training and personal attitude to the school has been established. The productivity and effectiveness of the organizational and educational conditions required for the effective implementation and developing the quality assessment model for educational activities in the system of additional professional education for state civil employees are determined. The structural and functional model for the quality assessment of educational services with the participation of consumers is suggested. According to this model selfexamination, introspection and external expertise (reflection, research, design of the educational environment) become the leading methods of the assessment. Thus, the position of the teacher changes. The teacher becomes an expert both in relation to his activity and in relation to the activity of the student, who is also placed in the position of an expert regarding his pedagogical activity and achievements in working with students. Keywords: quality of educational activity, quality assessment, educational needs, consumers, professional competencies, additional professional education, professional retraining, state civil service, motivation | 813 | |||||
| 5818 | Introduction. Functional approach in linguistics of 21 century conditions scientists’ attention to a problem of internal form of a word detection in synchrony and diachrony. The opportunity to study the vocabulary of different languages in the dynamic aspect, with the attraction of a new source – the testimony of the metalinguistic consciousness of the speakers – fits into the range of problems of modern linguistics and comparativistics. The aim of the article is to define the group of remotivated and demotivated bird names in Russian, English and Czech, to find out the reasons of remotivation and demotivation, as well as the extent and boundaries of these lexical processes. Research methodology involves the use of a psycholinguistic experiment with carriers of delivered languages, motivational-comparative and synchronic-diachronic analysis. Results and discussion. It has been established that the ornithological vocabulary of the languages being compared is equally exposed to the remotivation process. We detected that remotivated lexical units are such as have the motivating attribute, which is represented by a proper name and the connection with them was lost with time and is not recognized by modern native speakers. That is the reason for ornithonym’s motivation by another sign, which is connected with bird’s appearance in Russian, bird’s color and behavior in English (no similar ornithonyms were found on the material of the Czech language). Demotivation concerns lexical units with reasoning sign related to way of life and bird’s behavior in all the languages being compared. This is due to medium degree of demotivation in Russian birds’ names and to borrowing major part of English words from Latin, Greek and other languages. Demotivated Russian ornithonims lose their connection with reasoning sign related to bird’s voice. Herewith informants do not realize onomatopoeic character of a word. Demotivation concerns lexical units with reasoning sign related to way of life and bird’s behavior in all comparative languages. Conclusion. The results of analysis of remotivated and demotivated bird names in Russian, English and Czech indicate 1) complication of demotivation and its connection with borderline processes of internal word form’s remotivation and lexicalization; 2) vitality of these processes and their dynamic characteristics; 3) openness of its behavior, because in most cases the examined words have passed an intermediate stage of demotivation and remotivation and are passing the stage of polymotivation now. Keywords: remotivation, demotivation, internal form of a word, motivation of a language sign, psycholinguistic experiment, metatextual statements | 813 | |||||
| 5819 | The results of experimental check of pedagogical technologies effectiveness which are used during methodical training of geography teacher under conditions of additional professional education at a university have been introduced. The evaluation criteria of modern pedagogical technologies practicability and effectiveness of their application at higher education institutions have been described. Technologies, application of which ensures successful formation of various components of methodical competence and methodical thinking of geography teacher have been established. The comparative analysis of the experiment results and expert evaluations of the effective application of pedagogical technologies during methodical training of geography teacher has been performed. In scope of approbation of creatively oriented system of teacher methodical training at South Federal University, the optimal aggregate of pedagogical technologies for mastering of “Methods of Geography Teaching” course main topics, has been outlined. The ideas about the factors which prevent introduction of modern pedagogical technologies into teacher training at universities have been achieved thanks to questionnaire of teachers of various higher education institutions. Keywords: geography teacher methodical training, pedagogical technologies effectiveness, experiment, expert opinion method | 812 | |||||
| 5820 | The image of Arkhangelsk given by I. Kazakov in his work “Northern Diary” is analyzed from the perspective of N. Antsiferov’s study of urban texts. The narrator is looking for a spirit of Arkhangelsk and it corresponds to Antsiferov’s classification of parts of any city: anatomy, physiology and spirit. Classical analysis of chronotope is used as well. Perception of the city by the author-narrator is regarded according to the soviet idea of building of a new society on the one hand and traditional mythopoetics of Russian Literature on the other hand. As well as interaction of production sketch of the Soviet Literature and the unique artistic point of view of Yuriy Kazakov is analyzaed. Keywords: urban text, supertext, soviet literature | 812 | |||||
| 5821 | In the context of the phenomenon of “educational potential of institutions of General education” outlines the key requirements for the results (personal, meta-subject, subject) and the quality of education, the methods of inclusion in the educational process at the level of curricular and extracurricular activities of the elements of comparative historical linguistics, experience enriching educational environment in a particular educational institution. Identifies the potential use of material on the history of language to achieve the procedural requirements of the new standard of basic General education, gaves the characteristics of the educational-methodical complex of the authors T. A. Ladyzhenskaya, etc. from the point of view of the inclusion material and assignments on the history of the Russian language. Describes the framework of the course for extracurricular activities on the Russian language, based on the history of the emergence and development of dictionaries and the formation of skills of work with them. Keywords: educational potential of the FSES of the second generation, comparative-historical linguistics, educational-methodical complex | 812 | |||||
| 5822 | For the first time the attention is paid to the little-known review (obozrenie) “Odyssey” (1928) by Nikolay Erdman and his co-author Vladimir Mass. This text is travesting performance of the adventures of Odysseus, the main hero of Homer’s epic poem of the same name. The review includes three monologues of the assistant director (pomoshnikrezhissera). These monologues are not directly related to the plot of modern Odysseus’s adventures. Based on the works by Y. M. Lotman the article examines these monologues as a particular case of text within a text / theater within a theater. The article reveals peculiarity of comicality in the speeches of the assistant director, nature and functions of this character which unite him not only with chorus of Ancient Greek drama, but also with performers of Russian farce (balagan). Keywords: N. Erdman, V. Mass, “Odyssey”, review, text within a text, transformation, famous plot, convention, action, chorus, farce (balagan), comicality | 812 | |||||
| 5823 | Introduction. In the history of Russian literature for children, the period of 1940s is distinguished by the thorough attention to the image and motif of time by major writers. It becomes, on the one hand, the universal motive and reflects “the style of epoch” (Yuri Mineralov), on the other hand, great writers – Arkady Gaidar, Samuil Marshak, Evgeny Schwarz – present their artistic understanding of the time phenomenon in their individual styles, motives, images, techniques. The “inner form” (Aleksandr Potebnya) of an artistic work, that image of the “image of time” is interesting as a phenomenon. As a result of the comparative analysis, general and peculiar stylistic features, which represent the image of time in individual styles of the specified writers, were revealed. It was important to take works that are close in time of writing and analyse them in a synchronic perspective: all selected works are written in the range of 1941–43. As a result of the comparative analysis, the general ideology of the era reflected in the individual styles of these authors was manifested, that determines the relevance of the presented work. The aim of the study is to compare the plots and systems of images in the context of images and associative traditions of literature for children in 1940es. The novelty of the work lies in the convincing identification of stylistic dominants of the image and motif of time in these works at the level of plot, system of images, a particular technique – a sudden change in the age of the characters. Material and methods. The methodology of the study is based on the works on “inner form” by Aleksandr Potebnya and works on style by Pavel Sakulin, Yury Mineralov. In the definition of biographical time, we follow Valentin Halizev, in determining the motive we follow the work of “Historical poetics” by Aleksandr Veselovsky. Research methods: comparative-typological, historical. The theoretical significance of the work realises in the use of research materials in “Literature for Children”, “Introduction to literary studies” academic courses. The practical significance of the work is implemented in material for seminars for the study of A. P. Gaidar, Marshak and E. L. Schwartz works, and also for “Theoretical basis of the readers’ activities” practical classes on course. Results and discussion. The results of the study lead to the identification of typological convergence of the image and motive of time in the literature for children of the 1940s. However, one can trace the typological variation in individual styles of A. P. Gaidar, S. Ya. Marshak, and E. L. Schwartz. The Gaidar’s image of an old man is an integral part of his customary system of images, and it also plays a key role in the revealing of the image of time. In the works we have reviewed, Gaidar emphasizes the exceptional importance of transferring not just life, but life-building experience from the old to the young. It can be stated that the transfer of such experience motif is the leitmotif in the works of Gaidar (See Timur and His Team and The Hot Rock). On the contrary, the old men in The Tale of Lost Time, a story about Schwartz, are endowed with destructive evil magic power that can only resist the team of schoolchildren living in reality and, what is most important, catching up with their time. In the dramatic tale The Twelve Months by S. Marshak, the Princess’s individualistic attempt to control and speed up time is exposed not only negatively, but at the same time it looks pointedly senseless and absurd. Conclusion. In the reviewed works the motif and image of time are disclosed in the combination of art and didactics, what is considered traditional feature for literature for children. The stylistic convergence of the works by E. Schwartz and A. Gaidar is embodied in the plot-forming role of biographical time. The key stages, such as childhood and senility, reflect the symbolic plan of the beginning and the end of life. The change of epochs and generations, the transfer of social experience, major events in the life of society and individuals reveal the inextricable link between historical, social and creative levels. Keywords: image and motif of time, style dominants, inner form, individual style, style of the epoch, biographical time, plot, literature for children | 812 | |||||
| 5824 | The Dirac operator with an external Yang–Mills gauge field is considered on de Sitter space in terms of a noncommutative integration method related to the orbit method in the Lie group theory. A Yang–Mills field is presented for which the de Sitter group serves as the symmetry group of the Dirac operator. A spectrum of the Dirac operator with the Yang–Mills field is calculated in explicit form. Keywords: the Dirac equation, noncommutative integration, de Sitter space | 811 | |||||
| 5825 | A holographic duality between gravitation and field theories with a Lifshitz scaling symmetry has recently aroused much attention. We consider Lifshitz-like backgrounds in the context of their applications to the anisotropic quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. We construct shock waves geometries for Lifshitz-like metrics1. For the geometry of two colliding Lifshitz domain walls the areas of trapped surfaces are calculated. According to the holographic approach, the multiplicity of particles produced in heavy-ion collisions can be estimated by the area of the trapped surface. We show that in the 5-dimensional case the dependence of multiplicity on the energy of colliding ions can fit the experimental data observed at RHIC and LHC. Keywords: Lifshitz-like metrics, shock waves, trapped surface, holography, quark-gluon plasma | 811 | |||||
| 5826 | Motherhood is seen as a social and personal phenomenon of society at the present stage of its development in the face of alienation of child-parent relationships, growth of phenomena of consumerism, hedonism, individualism. Conceptual image of motherhood in the context of a psychosocial phenomenon is formed by two positions: as providing conditions for the child’s development and as a part of the personality of women, including a certain level of development of its identity and the result of the active person as the subject of her choice. Discusses the concepts of motherhood; biological and social factors that influence maternal sphere; parental and personal elements of maternal maturity; meaningful experience of motherhood; psychological readiness to motherhood. Considered aspects of the phenomenon of mothers play an important role in understanding how current conditions not only to change the image of the mother, but also her ability to create psychological and educational support to the children as a resource for physical and spiritual reproduction of society. Keywords: motherhood, childhood, aspects of motherhood, standards of maternal relations, image of the mother | 811 | |||||
| 5827 | The article deals with penetration of some plots, motives, characters and literary forms of the ancient Indian monument “Panchatantra” into the world of peoples’ oral and written literature. This factor has been the centre of folklore specialists’ attention since the XIX century. It is known that existence of the similar plots in the different peoples’ literature was interpreted by scientists quite differently. It was connected with relationship, borrowing, or accepted as independent phenomena. The article examines genetic and typological methods of analysis, reveals their merits and demerits. The following fact is taken as the basis: the genre “framed narrative” and method “casus” were formed on the basis of the ancient Indian traditions. So their manifestation in the other cultures has the Indian origin. It is supposed that the plot “wooden beauty” in Azerbaijanian tales has the Indian roots. The modifications of this plot used in the different peoples’ tales are compared. The drawn parallels make it possible to come to the following conclusion: each plot, motive, character and genre regardless of the original source is interpreted in national literature, changes according to native environment, traditions and gains new qualities. Keywords: “Panchatantra”, framed narrative, casus, “wooden beauty”, typological analysis, tale, anecdote, legend | 811 | |||||
| 5828 | The article deals with the ways of expressing attributive characteristics of actions by means of structures of discrete nomination (word combinations) and units of indiscrete nomination – single-word nominants having a complex semantic structure and denoting both an action and its qualitative characteristics at the same time. It also studies formal and semantic features of these units of nomination and their combinations. The article examines the factors determining the speaker’s choice of naming actions and its attributes. The main factors are cognitive (the influence of the character of perception of an action and its attributes – atomistic or holistic), linguistic (the possibility of analytical structuring and semantic expansion) and pragmatic (the speaker’s pragmatic intentions). Keywords: attribute, action, perception, discrete nomination, indiscrete nomination, explication, implication, semantic structure | 811 | |||||
| 5829 | The present article shows a lesson plan of an extra-curricular lesson for kindergarten children which was distinguished in the category „Teaching materials” in the International Competition for Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language organised by Tomsk State Pedagogical University and the Polish-Russian Institute in Wroclaw (Poland). The main theme of the lesson is based on the topic: “Understanding Masha. Speaking humorously, nicely and interestingly about the Russian language and culture.” The lesson is to be organised as a non-obligatory workshop. The lesson plan contains objectives and tasks characteristic of a workshop, of which the most important ones consist in popularising the Russian language and culture, encouraging children to adopt an open attitude towards cultural otherness as well as making them understand and show tolerance towards another culture. The lesson plan enumerates and describes teaching and learning methods to be used during classes. Special attention is paid to the selection process of rhymes and songs for children to learn. It is proposed to choose texts which contain words similar to those in the native tongue. Repeating such words is fun for children and it gives them a sense of achievement. The lesson plan determines also the psychological and pedagogical aspects of the workshop. During the classes children do not only learn Russian words and find out about their geographical neighbour’s culture, but they also learn: working in groups (depending on the age colouring matrioshkas, making greeting cards with a picture of matrioshka, doing a puzzle with a picture of balalaika or samowar), learning behavioural patterns and values through play. This kind of extra-curricular classes constitutes a really absorbing way of popularizing the Russian language among children, but it also provides good practice for students (future teachers) who take part in preparing the event and can engage in organising a really interesting undertaking. Keywords: extra-curricular classes, teaching materials, popularising the Russian language | 811 | |||||
| 5830 | The article offers a brief description of one of the most significant concepts for the English culture – “hobby”. The research of the content of the modern concept “hobby” in the English lingua-culture is based on the study of the English Dictionaries. The study also reveals the features of the formation of “hobby” as a lexical unit of the English language. At the present time English hobby is considered to be one of the types of “serious leisure” and the English concept “hobby” is getting a feature of usefulness and importance, and represents a certain model of life as pleasure, being engaged in not just a favourite routine, but necessary and useful. Keywords: concept, lingua-cultural concept, English lingua-culture, leisure, serious leisure, hobby | 811 | |||||
| 5831 | Introduction. The object of this research is the pragmatic functions of such discourse elements as pragmatic markers that are used in English gastronomic discourse, namely, in a TV and Internet cooking show. Material and methods. The material for this research is the cooking show videos of popular British chef Jamie Oliver, published on his official YouTube channel in 2018–2019. The methods of the research are discourse analysis, analysis of pragmatic markers and the method of linguistic description. Results and discussion. The introduction observes the concepts of “discourse” and “gastronomic discourse”, the features of the gastronomic discourse, its genre diversity, pragmatic potential of the TV and Internet cooking show. Various studies of linguists on the correlation of the terms “pragmatic marker” and “discourse marker” are reviewed. As the methodological basis of the research we chose Fraser’s classification of pragmatic markers. The classification of pragmatic markers revealed from the videos, its quantitative and qualitative analysis resulted in the establishment of pragmatic functions that different types of pragmatic markers perform in the discourse of the cooking show. Conclusion. It was concluded that: 1) the gastronomic discourse cooking show genre influences the formation of the gastronomic preferences of the audience; 2) pragmatic markers are necessary to indicate the speaker’s attitude to the utterance, as well as to facilitate the process of pragmatic conclusions; 3) due to pragmatic markers, the arsenal of language means involved in creating the required pragmatic effect of the cooking show is increased; 4) pragmatic markers of the discourse of the cooking show help keep the viewer’s attention and create the illusion of direct communication with the audience. Keywords: pragmatic markers, discourse markers, gastronomic discourse, cooking show | 811 | |||||
| 5832 | Introduction. The article presents the relevance of forming a meta-subject matter that is implemented on an intersubject content in the system of basic General education and is currently necessary for society in high-tech industries of any profile. The article shows the need for a modern school teacher of mathematics, physics and technology to develop competencies related to the basics of engineering, which are mandatory for graphic culture and graphic literacy. The purpose of research is to identify intersubject lines between mathematical, natural science and technical academic disciplines that contribute to the formation of students‘ competencies related to engineering, such as graphic culture and graphic literacy. Material and methods. The article is based on the authors generalization of the experience of teaching a number of engineering courses for future technology teachers directly related to their future professional activities. The analysis of normative documents on the research problem is carried out. Results and discussion. The analysis of normative documents regulating the educational process of future teachers of technology has shown that the content of the theoretical material, as well as the practical part of such fundamental disciplines as physics and mathematics, does not take into account the applied aspects of this direction of training students of pedagogical universities. In modern conditions of the introduction of specialized engineering classes in schools, in addition to the professional competence of the teacher, the teacher of mathematical, natural science and technological cycles of disciplines must have competencies related to engineering, such as graphic culture and graphic literacy. To form competencies related to graphic literacy, the module «Graphics / Engineering design» was introduced into the process of training technology teachers within the professional cycle as a discipline of choice, which included a block of such disciplines as drawing, engineering graphics, elements of analytical geometry, computer graphics. Thus, it became possible to create inter-subject lines between the academic disciplines of mathematical, natural science and technological cycles of disciplines, which in turn will further form the meta-subject of the entire educational process of future technology teachers. Conclusion. The formed meta-subject of the educational environment for students of pedagogical University studying in the direction of training 44.03.01 Pedagogical education, directions (profiles) of mathematics, physics, technology will allow teachers to consistently form and develop spatial thinking, imagination, creative abilities, observation of students necessary in their further professional activities. Keywords: metasubject results, intersubject content, professional competencies, mathematics teacher, physics teacher, technology teacher, basic engineering knowledge, descriptive geometry, computer graphics, engineering design | 811 | |||||
| 5833 | The article contains the attempt to explain almost total absence of women among the great philosophers on the basis of the Marxist theory of activity and pedagogical ideas of Ewald Il’yenkov. The author shows that the ability of the philosophical perception of the world is formed in the children’s games by certain toys. The content of the boys’ game is changing historically, as it is linked to the progress in technology and weaponry, and the girls’ games are historically unchanged, as they are related to the imitation of family life and child care. The ever-changing play of boys they contribute to the formation of creative and comprehensive perception of the world, while the routine games of girls form their reproductive and rigid mindset that excludes philosophy. Keywords: women, philosophy, praxis, interiorization, way of thinking, children’s game activities, children’s toys | 810 | |||||
| 5834 | The article deals with the problems of learning the English terminology of language didactics. The knowledge of terminology refers to one of the most complicated aspects of language didactics. The future teacher of a foreign language must also possess methodical terminology in a foreign language. It is known that this terminology (unlike the Russian language) is more polysemous, heterogeneous, dynamic, “lax”. This article suggests the use of educational methodical tasks as an effective basis for learning the English terminology of language didactics. It also states possible types of these tasks, including some author’s examples (search of synonymous expressions of classroom vocabulary, grouping of terms, search of false (incorrect) translation of classroom vocabulary, explanation of abbreviations, and choice of Russian equivalents of the terms in English). Keywords: terminological task, language didactics, a term of language didactics, English terminology of language didactics, learning terminology of language didactics | 810 | |||||
| 5835 | Reading as a leading process of initiation to knowledge is one of the main skills needed for educational activities, but also requires more time and cognitive costs from the learner. Information habits and needs of a new generation pose serious challenges for educational practices and require new solutions within the organization of the textual activity. In response to these challenges in practical field appear curious, successful experiments requiring review and synthesis. We consider the example of a successful gamification of the process of textual activity on the example of USATODAY project with the aim to identify the pedagogical potential of these technologies. Keywords: gamification, education, textual activity, reading, information | 810 | |||||
| 5836 | The author talks about the language difficulties that international students face while studying in Russian universities. These difficulties are related with the scientific style of speech and writing. Students do not understand scientific texts in Russian, make errors in the written work. The author suggests that the cause for this is a perception of the rules of the scientific style as formal, not related to successful communications, and proposes to pay more attention to the semantics and pragmatics of scientific language means. Objectivity – one of the basic requirements for scientific writing – can be represented as a main pragmatic attitude. The author offers a description of several linguistic phenomena that used for making the text more objective and shows how the description of the pragmatics of these words and structures helps to explain their use. Keywords: methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language, scientific style, pragmatics, objectivity, language means | 810 | |||||
| 5837 | Structural reorganization of the country’s economic system, the formation of public relations and management systems require new knowledge and special approaches from the management, which confirms the importance of training highly skilled management personnel and the need for the formation of a special system for their training and retraining. Managers should acquire experience in solving practical problems of development and improvement. In the context of this task, it is important to have a toolkit that would allow studying and researching the processes taking place in the managed object. In particular, a higher educational institution can act as the managed object. This article focuses on the development of the model of the university activities. The implementation of this model can be used as a basis for the development of a computer simulation program that can be used as a simulator for management training in order to study the appropriateness of managerial decision-making. The article considers in detail the model of management of students body, which are an essential part of the model of the organization of training in the structural subdivision of the university. According to the model, its behavior is determined by a set of configurable parameters that simulate management interventions and environmental parameters that model external conditions. Keywords: modeling, activity of the university, management of student contingent, functional models | 810 | |||||
| 5838 | The article below attempts to define, organize and structure genre varieties of operating instruction. Technical instruction and user manual have been already described in traditional linguistic research. The current study has revealed that genre varieties of operating instruction include new ones that have appeared recently. These are MissingManual, ForDummies, and TheCompleteIdiot’sGuide. The appearance of new genre varieties is due to the rapid development of technical progress. The current research shows that the new genre varieties of operating instruction fall into subclasses. It has been established that the main differences between Missing Manual, For Dummies and The Complete Idiot’s Guide include the way of presenting information in the text, thematic scope and functional stylistics status of the above mentioned texts. The Complete Idiot’s Guide and For Dummies are characterized by emotiveness, the use of resources of expressiveness such as metaphor, allusion, antonomasia and other stylistics devices. The Missing Manual has a specialized field, while For Dummies and The Complete Idiot’s Guide tend to be multidisciplinary texts. Unlike technical, or operating, instructions belonging to scientific style, Missing Manual, For Dummies and The Complete Idiot’s Guide are hybrid mixed genres that combine elements of scientific, advertising and colloquial styles. Keywords: operating instruction, Missing Manual, For Dummies, The Complete Idiot’s Guide, genre variety, subclass | 810 | |||||
| 5839 | Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of organizing the methodological activities of a school teacher and university teacher. Methodological activity is the most important component of a teacher’s professional activity, therefore it is important to understand in what ways it can be organized. This aspect is important not only for teachers of private methods, but also for any teacher of higher education, as he is a methodologist - the organizer of the assimilation of educational material by students. When preparing undergraduates as potential teachers, it is important to teach them different ways of organizing methodological activities. Materials and methods. The article was written on the basis of the author’s generalization of the teaching experience for undergraduates “Methods of Teaching Communicative Disciplines”, as well as many years of experience in teaching a course in teaching Russian to future elementary school teachers. Master students not only got acquainted with these methods at lectures, but also actively discussed them in tutorial mode. A comparative analysis of reproductive, constructive, research methods of organizing activities is used. Results and discussion. The characteristic of different ways of organizing methodological activities is given: reproductive, constructive, research. Тhe following comparison criteria were used: positions of participants in joint educational activities, subject of methodological activities, methodological tools, features of working with educational information, organization of the educational environment, result. Conclusion. As a basic principle of organizing methodological activities, co-organization and mutual complementarity of different methods are proposed. The methods are correlated with different models of the organization of joint activities of the teacher and students. Keywords: magistracy, methodological activities, organization methods, training session, interaction models | 810 | |||||
| 5840 | The paper considers specific features of image and status of English king Edward the Confessor’s wife Edith based on “Vita Ædwardi Regis” that was written in the middle 60-s of the XI c. on the orders of Edward’s widow. Edith’s status as the queen at her husband’s court as reflected in the “Vita…” well fitted in the overall trend of late Anglo-Saxon rulers’ wives strengthening influence on state affairs. However, the key factor in Edith’s “career” and in her image interpretation by the “Vita…” was her kinship with the powerful Godwin’s clan, the English king had to reckon with. By representing herself in the “Vita…” as the ideal wife, queen, sister and daughter of the powerful Godwin family members Edith attempted at strengthening her position at the royal court after the death of king Edward, her husband. Keywords: woman in the early Middle Ages, Anglo-Saxons, the queen’s status, Edith of Wessex, “The Life of king Edward” | 809 | |||||
| 5841 | The general and distinctive characteristics of wind and atmospheric precipitation in linguistic worldview of representatives of the Selkup and Russian ethnic groups are revealed and described. Morphoepic and pragmatic concepts of wind are interconnected in the linguistic worldviews of both ethnoses. The most relevant characteristics of wind are its force and direction in the linguistic worldviews of both ethnoses. In the dialects of the Selkup and Russian languages intensity and duration of atmospheric precipitation are marked. Folk works and compatibility of the lexemes denoting wind indicate personification and sacralization of wind in both cultures. In nominations of wind its negative or positive influence on economic activity of people is also reflected. The number of general characteristics of rain, objectivized in dialects of the Selkup and Russian languages, includes intensity of this atmospheric precipitation. Keywords: linguistic worldview, nomination of wind, nomination of rain, a dialect, Selkup language, Russian language, comparison | 809 | |||||
| 5842 | Intellectual, emotional-psychological and behavioral-communicative components of the legal culture have been analyzed and a contradiction between the need to form these components since the school age and the lack of appropriate social and educational programs in the education system have been determined. The conclusions are drawn that additional education has certain peculiarities in comparison with other types of formal education and it is determined that it is the system of additional education of children that is the space providing effective formation of schoolchildren as subjects of life activity and contributing to the successful implementation of programs aimed at shaping the legal culture of schoolchildren. The relationship between the high level of legal culture, civil legal relations and their manifestation in the tourist activity is defined. The contradiction between the requirement for a high level of legal culture among participants of legal relations in the sphere of tourist activity and the lack of the system of work aimed at satisfying this requirement and the contradiction between the need to form the components of a legal culture, starting from school age, and the lack of appropriate social and educational programs in the educational system. The main provisions of the supplementary education program “Legal foundations of tourist activities” developed by the Center for Children and Youth Tourism of the TSPU are described. Keywords: legal culture, intellectual, emotional-psychological and behavioral-communicative components of legal culture, formation of legal culture, legal relations, tourist activity, tourism, additional education | 809 | |||||
| 5843 | There is the problem of diagnostics of readiness of future mathematics teachers for professional activity in connection with the transition of higher education to the new standards based on the competence, personality-oriented and activity approaches to teaching. The concept of “readiness for professional activity” is associated with the concept of “professional competence”. The analysis of works on the diagnosis of professional competence from the point of view of psychodidactics allows us to identify certain requirements for the diagnosis of readiness of future mathematics teachers for professional activity: diagnostics should be carried out in the form of monitoring, thereby, its developmental function is realized; monitoring involves the use of the means of pedagogical support in case of educational difficulties of the diagnosed, thereby realizing the teaching function of the diagnostics; it should include the means of self-diagnosis, thereby the educational function of diagnostics is being realized. The designing of diagnostic materials for this monitoring was carried out using the example of diagnosing the readiness of future mathematics teachers to learn to solve text problems – one of the important components of mathematical training. Educational texts were developed in accordance with the structure of the problem-solving process, based on the requirements for diagnostics. Texts allow future mathematics teachers to estimate their readiness in the following areas of professional activity: the analysis of learners’ difficulties in solving problems; methodical work at the stage of the task condition analysis; use of various methods for solving text problems; additional work on the task; designing tasks aimed at learning problem-solving; comparison, recognition and construction of teaching texts; the use of historical and methodical experience in problem solving. Keywords: diagnostics of readiness of future teachers for professional activity, monitoring, educational texts, training in solving text problems | 809 | |||||
| 5844 | Within the new direction of social history, the subject field of which is the study of the social processes that accompanied the global conflicts of the 20th century, forms an objective idea about the attitude of the French-Canadian population on the problem of Canada‘s participation in the collective defense of the British Empire during the First World War. The paper examines the views of various groups of French-Canadian society (provincial government of Quebec, Roman Catholic Church’s representatives, French Canadian nationalists, provincial press of different social and political orientation) on the question of sending French-Canadian battalions to Europe. The chronology of the described events includes the first five months of the First World War (August – December 1914). As a result of the research, it estimates the level of imperial loyalty of the population of Quebec on the question of Canada‘s participation in the imperial wars. It studies the objective and subjective factors of the passivity of voluntary recruitment in Quebec (lack of military experience of the French-Canadian population, insufficient number of provincial police forces, traditionalism of the the rural population, anti-militarism propaganda of French-Canadian pacifists and nationalists, imperial policy of Department of Militia in Federal Government). It determines the role of the social movement for the creation of separate French-Canadian battalions in the process of activating recruitment and sending volunteers to the front. Keywords: First World War, Canada, Quebec, French Canada, volunteers | 809 | |||||
| 5845 | Aim of the research: to creat the image of religion as cultural and civilizational phenomenon. Methods of research: multidisciplinary approach, method of historical and philosophical analysis, hermeneutical method, comparative methodology, methodology of reconstruction of cultural and historical reality, based on the picture of culture as coexistence of unified cultural and historical types, where every element is determined by the system of mental dominants. Results: in the paper it is showed that the creating of cultural and civilizational model of religion is possible in the methodology, which considers culture as the objectification of human existential characteristics, representing the unity of civilization (for self-preservation, security, etc.) and cultural (in beauty, transcendence, etc.) needs. Cultural and civilizational aspects are considered in functioning of the Church, monasticism, monasteries, Christian morality. It is showed, that the civilizational component dominates in the activities of Western European Church and Catholic monasteries, but the cultural component dominates in the activities of the Russian Church and Orthodox Monasteries. Keywords: religion, church, culture, civilization, morality, human nature | 808 | |||||
| 5846 | The developing biotechnologies give rise to the new phenomena of art and science – from Sci-Art to bioaesthetics. The scientific research part of this governed by bioethics. The perception of these works of art raises the question of predictability of the consequences of this act. For this purpose, it seems appropriate to conduct diagnostic semiotic limits of applicability of theories of perception based on the model of information-synergetic approach. The main theses and models of information- synergetic approach are chosen as bases for the classification of psychological theories of visual information perception. The article states some results of the RFBR project no. 14–06–00440; of RFH project no. 15–03–00598-а. Keywords: visual information, perception of visual information, bioethics, synergetic, information-synergetic approach | 808 | |||||
| 5847 | The article considers the application of certified ISO 9001: 2008 quality management system in high school and specifically the method of projection of license indicators, accreditation requirements and indicators for monitoring the quality management system. The article also shows an exemplary process model of the university. Processes are assessed on key performance indicators.The article presents the methods of tracking them when conducting internal audits. There are the examples of the evaluation process of document management and records management, organization and organization of educational process. Of interest are the examples of the projection of the license and accreditation requirements on the performance of specific processes of the university. For modern Russian universities monitoring indicators, which is annually held by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation are important. The article suggests how to work with the monitoring indicator “Scientific activity” on the basis of goalsetting in the framework of the quality management system. Keywords: Quality Management System, ISO 9001: 2008, process model of higher school, higher school performance indicators | 808 | |||||
| 5848 | The article presents the experience of organizing children's activities in their residence within the project “City Summer”. It shows the conceptual, organizational and methodological features of the implementation of professional probations for students – future social teachers – involved in the project in order to pass the summer psychological and pedagogical practice. Substantiates the data of empirical research, reflecting the results of using of probations as a means of professional training of future social teachers for leisure, recreation and summer holidays for children and teenagers. Denotes the perspectives of research in the context of the development of scientific and pedagogical knowledge related to social and pedagogical aspects of summer holidays for children in their residence. Keywords: professional probation, training of future social teachers, organizing summer holidays for children, summer psychological and pedagogical practice | 808 | |||||
| 5849 | The paper is devoted to the analysis of threat tactic realization on the basis of the news genre. The threat tactic represents the confrontational strategy which exists in the framework of the linguopragmatic block of the coherent models of the conflict and congruous types of discourse. News genre is viewed as functioning in the intercultural political space. The author singles out three cases of the threat tactic realization: the beginning of the conflict communication, the response to some kind of action on the part of the opponent (or the third part), emotional reaction. All the above-mentioned cases present the explication of the threat tactic with the help of lexical, grammatical and other language factors. Outlines the prospects for further research to which belong the analysis of cognitive marked cases of threat tactic realization when the researcher needs additional efforts to classify these or those utterances as being destructive. Keywords: confrontational strategy, tactic of threat, news genre, conflict discourse, modelling | 808 | |||||
| 5850 | The paper deals with the issue of the professional communicative competence that is essential for the engineering specialists and academics to participate in the international scientific conferences. This is important, as the inadequate level of the English language, specifically, with regard to the academic writing and academic communication skills is considered one of the factors hindering the transition of Russian universities into the global research and education community. The focus of attention is the rapidly developing field of composite materials and technologies. The author proposes using a multi-level approach to forming the professional English communicative skills in the engineering university, which includes an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course for academics. The specifics of the approach are illustrated by a case of Russia-UK conferences in the field of advanced materials. The paper presents the analysis of the international scientific collaboration and the excerpts from the survey of the prospective learners at the “Spacerocket composite structures” department at Bauman Moscow State Technological University. The data served as the basis for the needs assessment procedure, which, in turn, was used to formulate the goals and objectives and select the linguistic and functional content for the course. The ESP course had a positive impact on the international research activity of the department, in particular, the increase in the number of post-graduate students participating in the international conferences. Keywords: professional communicative competence in English, English for Specific Purposes, multi-level training system, composite materials, scientific conferences | 808 | |||||