THE SPECIFICS OF TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED READING TO STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL SPECIALTIES IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to an important problem of forming foreign-language reading competence of students of a non-linguistic university. The article gives the authors’ understanding of the importance of teaching professionally-oriented reading in a technical university. The material reveals the most significant concepts and theories of teaching professionally-oriented reading. The characteristic of the precedent technical text is presented and the methodological principles of teaching professionally-oriented reading of such texts are highlighted. Based on the data obtained, it is revealed that the main strategic task of teaching professionally-oriented reading is to create a secondary language personality in the context of subject-language training of students of technical specialties. The article in question will be of interest to specialists in the field of foreign language teaching methods in a non-linguistic university.