Grammatical aspects of teaching the scientific style of foreign residents at the Preparatory Faculty.

  • Irina Dinevich. Department #2, Faculty of the Russian language and General Disciplines, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Russia.
Keywords: Russian as foreign language, language for special purposes, grammatical aspects of teaching, scientific style of speech, communicative competence

Abstract

The article is devoted to the grammatical aspects in the teaching of foreign residents the scientific style of speech, since the formation of the language competence is impossible without systematic knowledge of grammar. Teaching residents Russian as a foreign language as the language of instruction has distinctive features that are described in the article. The main focus is made on teaching scientific style of speech as the basis for high-quality language training. The article discusses the morphological, syntactic and word-formation features of words and grammatical constructions of scientific medical texts. The ways of mastering medical terminology in Russian as the basis of successful professional communication are analyzed. Recommendations on systematization and generalization of the language material are given.

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Published
2019-11-01