Abstract:

The use of rendering in learning foreign languages is a widespread method in the foreign language learning process. We determine rendering as a process of reading, analyzing a text and summing up its main ideas. The use of rendering is aimed at comprehending, remembering and producing a foreign language as well as emulating the specific of different text genres. The present study explores specific features of an analytical article that must be taken into consideration in learning rendering. By analytical article we mean an objective text, aimed at analyzing / clarifying a situation. However, it sees an increase of subjectivity, which leads to growth of language means’ use, among which contrast plays a considerable role. Contrast as the phenomenon of mutual opposition of text units is considered as one of the semantic and stylistic types of the text organization used in order to put forward the important information introduced by the author.

Contrast in an analytical article could be expressed in two forms:
1) explicit form of contrast based on systemic opposition of lexical units in the text (we can use antonyms as well as some stylistic devices which express opposition like oxymoron, anthesis, paradox), and
2) implicit form where text units could be considered as contrasting only in the context of the whole text.

Analyzing the articles most students ignore the phenomenon of contrast and therefore misrepresent the main gist of the text. This study is intended to illustrate the difficulties in rendering of an analytical article and to help students interpret the text correctly.

Keywords:

Analytical article, rendering, language learning process, contrast.