Abstract:

The article discusses the main types of scientific work that can be used in the study of a foreign language at a technical university. These include: an abstract, a report and a project. The features of their similarities and differences are considered. A SWOT analysis was conducted by the authors on the results of which it was found out that a foreign language as an academic subject provides great opportunities for using elements of scientific activity. A research project or an abstract in a foreign language can be considered an educational and research work, therefore, in our opinion, requirements should be issued to its language design that meet the requirements of the scientific style of speech. The objective of the paper is to find out the most efficient ways of integrating these elements of the scientific discourse into the foreign language curriculum and to define the success factors. The authors consider it expedient to explain to students a number of stylistic and syntactic rules used in the design of research results. In addition to terminological units specific to each area of knowledge, the use of which depends on the topic of research, there are a number of lexical units that are used in scientific work, regardless of the research topic, in order to describe the structure of the work, the research process, express one's own opinion, etc. Data assimilation lexical items appears necessary for successful work in accordance with the projects method. The article describes an experiment to study the effectiveness of this approach. The experiment involved two groups of students working on an interdisciplinary project on the topic "Compiling an electronic dictionary of IT terminology”. During the project students had to develop an English-Russian glossary and a program with an interface for use in the educational process. In the control group, students started working on the project without first studying the elements of general scientific vocabulary. In the second experimental group, the students listened to an overview course on this topic for 4 hours and received a glossary of vocabulary to use to describe the research. On average, we can talk about improving the efficiency in teaching a foreign language using this method by 40%, which is quite a serious figure. It is also observed that the success of project approach greatly depends on. In conclusion the main criteria are developed that account for the success of project and research work while teaching a foreign language at a technical university.

Keywords:

foreign languages, project method, vocabulary