Nataliya В. Smolskaya

The relevance of the problem under study is determined, on the one hand, by the rapid spread of digital technologies in the modern academic environment, which requires organization and high-quality methodological support, on the other hand, the problem of visibility in teaching a foreign language is in the focus of attention of the modern teacher. One of the tools for high-quality methodological support can be a thematic digital collage aimed at developing foreign language epideictic speech of graduate students in the modern academic environment. The purpose of the study is to present the didactic aspect of the thematic digital collage implementation as a tool for the development of epideictic speech of graduate students in the modern academic environment. The study attempts to clarify the terms “digital collage”, “digital collaging”, “actor-rhetor”. The didactic potential of using thematic digital collage as a tool for developing foreign language epideictic speech of graduate students is justified. The didactic advantages of using digital collage, digital collaging are described; the need for their use in modern academic environment is substantiated. The structural and content characteristics of a graduate student's foreign language rhetorical competence are analyzed. The authors propose an algorithmic prescription for organizing work on the development of foreign language rhetorical and communication skills of graduate students using a complex of structured communicative tasks and rhetorical tasks aimed at overcoming foreign language rhetorical difficulties. The study used the Neyman Pearson lemma to assess the statistical significance of differences in indicators. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that a thematic digital collage has been proposed and implemented as a tool for the development of foreign language epideictic speech of graduate students. The results of the study show that the use of digital collaging and thematic digital collage contribute to the development of foreign language epideictic speech of graduate students, allowing them to effectively respond to a situation or event, showing their uniqueness; achieve focus on current tasks and improve their effectiveness.