Elena Pestova

The article examines the advantages of a communicative approach in teaching foreign language on a non-linguistic faculty and the necessity to learn dialogical speech and its features. The importance of the grammatical component in the construction of utterances, as well as the use of clichéd phrases for both social and professional-oriented successful communication is noted. The authors describe the sequence of exercises that are suitable for the establishment of communicative competence for students who study at a non-linguistic higher school institution.

The article is devoted to the problem of organization of Student Olympiads as one of the effective forms of extracurricular work of university students. The article describes the experience of organizing the Foreign Languages Olympiad movement at Omsk State Agricultural University. The study allows to come to a conclusion about the effectiveness of the Foreign Languages Chair instructors’ work for organizing the extracurricular activities of students.

The paper is devoted to the problem of compound nouns translation in specialized texts (in terms of the German language) for non-linguistic students. The methods of compound noun parts identification and the order of their translation are described.