Single Specialized System – Text and Discourse

Gonchar Natalia Nikolaevna, Shabanova Anna Evgenievna

The article describes the English professionally oriented instructional text and the English instructional discourse as a single specialized system of argumentative and professionally oriented communication realizing in a foreign-language instructional environment for engineering education. In this context, learning process in the English classroom for training a specialized technician is an interaction between a teacher and students and their activity is carried out in the course of generating and interpreting texts. In this context, the instructional communication in a foreign-language learning environment proceeds in the form of textual activity. Setting it as a goal mainly to investigate and determine the features of the English instructional text the author highlights its specific characteristics. In this respect, textual activity in the learning interaction is nothing more than a content-semantic exchange, where the English instructional text/discourse acts as a tool for transmitting communicatively significant information. Thus, the English instructional text and the English instructional discourse are interchangeable concepts and can be considered as a tool for using language as a single specialized system for expressing certain ways of thinking, designed to purposefully influence the student, introducing a certain system of knowledge into his consciousness, including scientific knowledge and ideas in order to change his knowledge / knowledge system and ideas about the real view of the world. The English instructional text and the English instructional discourse is a single specialized system of argumentative, professionally oriented communication the purpose of which is a harmonious socialization of a new member of society.

Keywords:text, discourse, a foreign-language instructional environment, professionally oriented communication, the English instructional text, the English instructional discourse, a single specialized system.