Keyword: «communicative method»

Studying foreign languages students are faced with a number of facts, relating not only to the vocabulary, grammar, style, but also to social, domestic or historic area. Learning English includes the variety of aspects. The article deals with the linguistic-cultural aspect as one of the major ones, providing the intercul-tural communicative competence.

The effective and modern methods of studying a foreign language in engineering institute are given. Such training methods as the method of the communicative approach, the case method, the use of electronic textbooks, student research conferences and work with a newspaper article in a foreign language are presented and described in details.

The article provides a brief description of the Russian language textbook for Czechs by J. Kolář “Грамматика русскаго языка въ примѣрахъ и разговорахъ” (Russian language grammar in examples and conversations) (1873), which arouses interest due to the combination of the grammar-translation method of foreign language teaching and the communicative approach elements. The textbook presents not only grammatical information about the Russian language, but also provides 24 dialogues (or sets of phrases) for communication in real communicative situations of that time. This textbook structural principle resembles the one of the first Russian language grammar by H. Ludolf (Grammatica Russica, 1696).

The relevance of the work is due to changes in the federal state educational standards of higher education in a foreign language, where the main role is acquired by business communication skills in oral and written forms and the possession of which is impossible without formed grammatical skills. The analysis of scientific and methodological literature made it possible to identify the specifics of teaching the grammatical side of foreign language speech in a non-linguistic university, the conditions, principles and stages of formation, improvement and development of grammatical skills, types of exercises to achieve the goals set. The purpose of this study is to work out a set of exercises for improving and developing grammatical skills on a communicative basis in a non-linguistic university and justify its effectiveness. The theoretical and methodological basis of this research was made up of works devoted to the problems of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university, teaching grammar of a foreign language, the formation and maintenance of students' motivation. It is proposed to use professional texts as a basis for the exercises. They arouse students’ interest, contribute to maintaining motivation to learn a foreign language. Experimental training, which included the technology of the "flipped classroom" based on the electronic course in the discipline "Foreign Language" in LMS Moodle and the worked out set of communicative exercises based on professional texts, proved their effectiveness. The positive outcomes were obtained as a result of training and were reflected in the final test and student survey. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the revision of approaches to teaching grammatical aspect in a non-linguistic university. The practical significance of the article is in the fact that this technology can be used in teaching grammatical aspect of any foreign language, provided that it is adapted accordingly, depending on the typical language difficulties, students’ needs and curriculum content.

analyzing modern methods and technologies of teaching foreign languages, we will note how they play an important role in the process of mastering a foreign language and how they stimulate students to actively use the language, make the learning process more interesting and effective. Communicative method, virtual learning technologies and interactive methods are just some of the many approaches that can be applied to achieve the best results in foreign language teaching.