PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Abstract

The objective of the article is to design a teaching process aimed at developing and enhancing foreign
language writing skills of engineering students of higher education institutions. The article highlights that
nowadays there are a sufficient number of developed teaching models on foreign language at higher technical
institutions, however, in practice; the level of development of communicative competence of engineering
students in written language is much lower than the level of the given competence in spoken language.
Therefore, little attention has been paid to professionally oriented teaching of foreign language writing of
engineering students at higher education institutions, stimulating actively seeking better ways to improve the
methods, ways and means of professionally oriented teaching of foreign language writing of engineering
students at higher educational establishments.
The technique of scientific text abstracting and annotation in foreign language have been presented, its
peculiarities and language difficulties, occurring in this process, have been defined in this article. The given
recommendations concerning to foreign professional texts working can consider as supplementary means to
optimize the process of foreign language training, oriented to further development forms and methods of given
academic problem, they will be able to create the favorable conditions for technical and liberal education
combining, to promote the students’ identity development, to acquaint with modern tendencies of techniques,
industry development of studied language country. The didactic potential of blog-technologies have been
analyzed; the systematic algorithm to develop linguistic students’ writing skills by the example of Internet
discussion through weblog has been proposed in the work.
The article concluded that the writing language learning, aimed at quick and effective perception of
educational material (general and professional vocabulary), gives engineering students the opportunity to
increase the strength and reliability of the educational material understanding, improve spoken language and
reading, develop memory and logical thinking and upgrade the creative material in practice. Therefore, the
relevance of writing language should be taken into consideration not as an additional to spoken language, but as
a complex and autonomous speech skill in the context of English teaching for specific purposes at higher
technical education institutions.