Abstract:

Graduates of universities should be prepared for the implementation of various projects, including international ones, in different scientific fields in a team with specialists from subject areas. Thus, interdisciplinary projects are of particular significance. Ural Federal University identifies interdisciplinary project teaching as one of its priority areas. Interdisciplinary projects in a foreign language are realized in the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies. As a result, we encountered the necessity to create a specialized textbook that meets objectives of teaching a foreign language for research projects and requirements of the students, teachers of foreign languages, and the heads of Bachelor and Master curriculums. We carried out theoretical researches of the principles of creating modern textbooks for university students. These principles of forming competences, conscientiousness and activity are determined as the priority ones. The didactic requirements for a contemporary textbook which include adequate correspondence of pedagogical process to the demands of modern life, purposefulness of education, reliance on a student and motivation are proposed in the article. We consider the use information and communication technologies in the educational process at higher educational establishments as one of the essential requirements. We describe in detail the textbook How to Master Scientific Skills in English elaborated for academic research work in foreign language teaching at universities. This textbook is aimed at the formation and development of all types of speech activities (reading, speaking, writing and listening) in a foreign language and the foreign language communicative research competence in the sphere of the future career through the implementation of a project work in various fields. The results of the research include the testing assessment of the textbook with the students of the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies at Ural Federal University and surveys of the teachers and students.

Keywords:

Foreign Language Teaching, Information and Communication Technologies, Academic Research Work, Textbook, Project Teaching, Interdisciplinary Projects.