Using different kinds of texts in RFL classes at a technical university

Danielian Mary G., Astashchenko Elena V.

The article analyzes a hypothetical system of educational and scientific texts in Russian as a foreign language classes (exactly Russian foreign Languages for Specific Purposes LSP) for student’s level B1+ and the structure of different kinds of tasks. Particular attention is paid to the debatable issue of differentiation and prevention of duplication of professional texts in LSP, that has a specific purposes: the entity of LSP enhances student's ability to acquire knowledge from the technical lectures and understanding of other materials on his future profession from specialists in this field. The linguist's task is to overcome the difficulties depends on the grammatical and lexical features of the construction and technical substyle of scientific speech, and not to explain the "mechanics of liquids and gases", for example. The authors of the article also analyze texts from the latest textbooks of the University of Civil Engineering, which can be favourable for the development of understanding of academic listening and the scientific speech-producing algorithm that foreign students should have, then the authors of the article offers the examples of complex tasks aimed at improving vocabulary and grammar, as well as the formation of the student's communicative competence are given.

Keywords:Russian as a foreign Languages (RFL), Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), construction and technical substyle, communicative competence, educational and scientific text.