Keyword: «английский язык»

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the growing need for technical specialists with developed business writing skills in English in the context of globalization and internationalization of business and science. Despite the high level of professional knowledge, many engineering students experience difficulties in composing business correspondence and professional documents in English, which hinders their effective communication and successful integration into the international professional community. The aim of this article is to justify a model of teaching engineering students to write in English in order to develop the necessary competences for successful professional and academic activity in an international context. The model is designed to fill the gaps in language training, focusing on the specifics of business communication and requirements for professional texts. The methodological basis of the research is a complex approach, including the analysis of existing methods of teaching business English, taking into account the specifics of teaching students of technical specialties, as well as the principles of competence and communicative approaches. The model is based on the integration of authentic materials, interactive tasks, project-based activities and feedback system aimed at developing practical skills of writing business letters, reports, proposals and other types of professional texts. Emphasis is placed on developing skills of information structuring, using business style, observing grammatical and stylistic norms, as well as taking into account cultural peculiarities of business communication. The results of the study demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed training model in improving the level of proficiency in business writing in English among engineering students. Practical application of the model showed a significant improvement in the quality of professional texts, increased students' confidence in their language skills and their readiness for international professional interaction. The obtained data confirm the necessity of purposeful and systematic work on the development of business writing skills in English among students of technical specialties. Theoretical significance of the research lies in the expansion of ideas about the methodology of teaching business English in a technical university, as well as in the substantiation of principles and approaches to the formation of relevant competences. Practical significance consists in the possibility of using the developed model of teaching in the educational process of technical universities to improve the quality of language training of graduates and their competitiveness in the international labor market. The model can be adapted for different technical specialties taking into account their specific needs and requirements to business communication.

In the Russian education system, game-based learning is gaining increasing popularity due to its appeal to modern students. Quest, as an interactive game technology, is widely used for developing foreign language communicative competence. However, the analysis of literature shows that typically web quests, rather than offline quests, are used for developing socio-cultural competence. The aim of this article is to study the motivational and didactic potential of offline quests in forming students’ socio-cultural portrait of their native country by means of a foreign language. This paper uses the English language teaching as an example. The methodological basis of the research includes: a multicultural approach in foreign language teaching, ideas of gamification in education, concepts of interactive foreign language learning and developing motivation, the concept of developing learners’ socio-cultural competence, and an algorithm for using quests in foreign language teaching. The authors conducted a trial experimental study to determine the learners’ attitudes towards quests as a means of acquiring knowledge about their native country in a foreign language. They also assessed the effectiveness of quest technology in generating this knowledge. The authors developed and implemented a quest called "Let Us Travel around Russia" for students aged 15–17, and conducted a questionnaire and post-quest testing. The research showed the following results: 1) the analysis of the questionnaire revealed a positive attitude of students towards participating in an offline quest in a foreign language and studying socio-cultural material about their native country in this format; 2) the analysis of the tests showed the effectiveness of developing learners’ knowledge after the quest. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the systematic analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the issue of using quests for the development of socio-cultural competence. The study also has practical significance since the developed tasks can be used both for conducting similar quests and for classroom work aimed at forming students' socio-cultural competence.

The present article reveals the alternative ways of mastering a foreign language, particularly, using the capabilities of lizard brain. It states the possibility to learn a foreign language even when having rest; it describes some definite resources. The authors put forward the idea about the necessity to set a correct aim when studying a foreign language, for example create it basing on SMART technology.