Keyword: «communicative task»

one of the most important concepts of modern pedagogical science of language is verbal communication, that is, communication of people, understood not only as a conversation, but also as any interaction for the purpose of exchanging information (reading, writing, etc.). The specificity of the interaction of people in the process of their life activity consists in the use of language, which, being the most important means of human communication, also acts as an tool of knowledge, as an tool of thinking. It was this thesis that formed the basis of this article, which discusses some theoretical and practical aspects of the formation of speech skills in the process of teaching a foreign language to students of technical universities based on an activity approach using interactive methods and technologies. Practical training of speech activity should be organized as an integral part of professional or scientific and educational activities. Speech development should be conducted in the context of solving communicative problem tasks, which contributes to the intellectual speech activity of students.

The realities of modern social and political life are characterized by vivid discussions, polemics and disputes, which cause an active interest to the skills and abilities development issues for conducting a discussion, which undoubtedly entails the necessity to develop unprepared foreign language speaking skills. The purpose of the presented research is a theoretical substantiation of the effectiveness of training discussion introduction into the process of linguistic students’ professional training, aiming at developing the unprepared foreign language speaking skills, as well as a description of the practical scheme of using this pedagogical technology for academic purpose from the point of view of modern linguodidactics. The article proves the pedagogical principles used during modeling problematic communicative tasks within the creative practical approach and learner- centered approach in the process of teaching the linguistics majors. Being based on the experience of using this training format within the “Practical course of English language verbal communication culture”, the authors state that the proposed pedagogical technology increases the motivational component both for mastering the academic subject and preparing for future professional activity, positively influencing the mechanism of reducing psychological barriers during the “imitative communication”. Moreover, the main methodological advantage of the pedagogical technology proposed is linguists’ unprepared speaking skills developing. The conclusions and proposals on the introduction of such communicative activity form as training discussion into the process of professional training of future linguists made by the authors represent the significance of the work both at the theoretical and practical levels. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the fact that the discussion communication process analysis is conducted both from the position of linguodidactics and linguistic stylistic characteristics, which contributes to an integrated approach to modeling situations of potential discussion. The practical significance of this article lies in the fact that the research materials, as well as the conclusions made by the authors, can be used to work out both the thematic discussion cycles, and fragments of separate classes aimed at formation and developing the unprepared foreign language speaking skills.

The relevance of the research presented in the article is due to the need to con-sider the prospects for using neural networks for preparing the future linguist-translator to solve foreign language communicative problems. The article analyzes the capabilities of the “Twee” neural network for modeling the personality of an op-ponent in a real communicative situation and generating responses according to given parameters, which allow you to fully utilize the real apperceptive base of native Eng-lish speakers, as would happen in a real intercultural dialogue. It is predicted that the scope of application of neural networks will expand, including in the methodological aspect, in terms of training linguists and translators in higher education.