Developing communicative competence in a foreign language using creolized texts

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of developing the job-related communicative competence in a foreign language. The objectives and tasks of developing communicative competence using creolized texts, which are found in scientific texts, are defined. The requirements for developing foreign language job-related communicative competence in the process of studying are defined as well. The authors give a review of different types of exercises which can be used within the process of classroom activities and self-guided work. The authors give a review of different types of stylistic devices used in oral and written speech, as well as the review of studying grammar and job-related vocabulary. It is concluded that the mastery of written speech occurs rather late in the educational process. At the final stages of training, the formation of skills and abilities of the semantic analysis of the text, its compression, targeted extraction of information, combination and construction of a written statement is also carried out.

Keywords

• creolized text
• scientific and technical text scientific communication
• communicative competence in a foreign language
• stylistic peculiarities of written texts and oral speech
• collocations
• term base
• lexico-grammatical devices
• syntactic devices
• railway discourse