Abstract:

The purpose of the article is to prove the effectiveness of the teaching program aimed at developing skills of creating a scientific text written in the academic style. The correlation between components of a speech genre model and the cognitive style in drawing conclusions can be represented as a flexible system with interchangeable modules comprises different types of exercises.

To develop such a program, "Abstract" was chosen as the smallest, structurally transparent and therefore the best genre to start with. The material for the Linguistic part of the study constituted 200 Abstracts published in Russian scientific journals over the past 5 years on Arts and Humanities. The study of the cognitive and pragmalinguistic foundations of the genre (its main strategy, conceptual foundation, references, and a set of required structural and content components) led to the identification of the three most common models of the genre.

The second stage of the work was an experiment aimed at finding the most frequent mistakes made by students in the structure and content of the genre. The most frequent breaches were:
1) absence of the first component – the goal – in 35% of student abstracts;
2) the research methods were not specified in 45%;
3) violations of the coherence and the integrity of the text characterised 45% of the works.

The identified characteristics of the genre model and typical errors became the basis for the development of the teaching program. In accordance with modern methodological trends, the cognitive-oriented approach to learning, the theory of resilient Pedagogies and rhyizomatic learning were taken as a basis. The technology of the "flipped classroom" proved to be the most effective way for work with Z generation as it suited their style of thinking and the way of absorbing the information. The study conducted in two groups of students studying Russian as a foreign language in 2020-2021 confirmed the productiveness of the developed model consists of three blocks of units (discursive, logical and stylistic), and has three paths of tasks sequence for three variants of the genre.

Keywords:

Academic writing, abstract, speech genre, cognitive style of thinking.