DISCOURSE AND ANALYTICAL SKILLS IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO FUTURE ENGINEERS
Professional competence of modern engineers suggests that they have a wide range of developed speech skills. Usually it is about the ability to read job-relevant texts. To enhance the multi-skill foreign language proficiency, it is essential to form and develop discourse and analytical skills, which play an important role in teaching a foreign language to students majoring in non-linguistic areas.
Keywords: foreign language training, professionally oriented reading in a foreign language, discourse and analytical skills
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Issue: 13, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 13
Rubric: HIGHER SCHOOL EDUCATION
Pages: 26 — 29
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