Nº 2 (851) (2024)

The article presents the history of the formation and development of the Pyatigorsk scientific school of foreign language teaching methods, as well as its main results and achievements. The priority research directions of the Pyatigorsk scientific school are outlined, including ethnolinguodidactics, the concept of a happy foreign language teacher, autolinguodidactics, didactics of multilingualism, the international scientific annual methodological symposium “Lempert Readings”.

The purpose of the study was to clarify the attitude towards the English-as-a-lingua-franca concept in the domestic and foreign academic environments and the relevance of teaching ELF in Russia. The methodology included collation of evaluative statements of researchers about ELF, tracking its characteristic features in undergraduate curricula of the discipline “Foreign language (English)” at Russian universities of a random sample. The results suggest a need for a differentiated approach.

The article examines the contents of the pragmatic aspect of the student’s second language identity as well as the process of its formation across the educational levels, taking into account the periodization of professional development of the individual. The prerequisites, types and forms of pragmatization of the process of continuous linguistic and methodological training of a foreign language teacher, including the stages of early selection, are specified.

The article considers the teaching of foreign language professional communication to non-linguistics students based on the Backward design model. The authors present a teaching technique aimed at FL communicative competence development in the context of a “backward” planning course, i.e., the identification of final results and the determination of acceptable evidence precede learning activities and instruction. The results of the experimental teaching to non-linguistics students with the use of the design model are discussed.

The article is devoted to the problem of teaching foreign languages and Russian as a foreign language using creolized texts in the general context of informatization and computerization of modern education. The relationship between the verbal and non-verbal parts of such texts and the components included in the paralinguistic part are described; the role of creolization in teaching foreign languages is considered, the principles of selection and designing creolized texts are highlighted.

A qualitative breakthrough in text generation technologies requires some understanding of their applicability for teaching French-language writing skills. A theoretical analysis of linguodidactic research, works on the psychology of perception and the methodology of polypositional observation leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to study the influence of digital tools on foreign language writing as an activity in order to build an effective teaching strategy.

The article dwells on developing communicative competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language at levels B2 - C1, focusing on the differences in levels, considering the main difference - processing explicit information at level B2 and implicit information at level C1. The author supplies types of activities, aimed at developing skills of linguistic and discourse components of communicative competence based on the materials of textbook “In the World of People. Issue 3.2”.

The article examines current approaches to teaching foreigners professional communication in Russian. Special attention is given to the efficiency of teaching metalanguage through diagnostic assessment of proficiency in communicative competence. According to the inventory of skills in linguistic and discourse competences types of activities for diagnostic assessment are proposed.

The article discusses the difficulties of speech development of four to five year old children from monolingual and bilingual families. The assumption is verified that the difference between the speech of children from monolingual and bilingual families lies in the level of proficiency in lexical consistency. 30 children with difficulties in speech development in Russian were studied. Using the indicators of the methodology for determining the speech level development of preschool children, observation and conversation with children and their parents, the assumption was confirmed.

Personality manifestations of foreign students during the period of socio-psychological adaptation are identified and designated. During the pilot study, the personality traits of foreign students were differentiated and ranked: self-acceptance, acceptance of others, emotional comfort, internality, desire for dominance. It has been empirically proven that during the period of adaptation, personality manifestations in the cognitive-emotional sphere require psychological and pedagogical support especially.

The article deals with certain problematic issues of the establishment of domestic inheritance funds related to the implementation by notaries conducting inheritance business of the powers provided for by current legislation. The mechanism of legal relations with notaries who keep copies of the will, the bodies of the foundation being created, the authorized state body carrying out the state registration of the foundation is analyzed, and proposals for its improvement are formulated.

The article is devoted to the study of digital traces of crimes committed using the opportunities of the interbank online Forex currency market. The study of this issue was carried out using systematic, logical, formal legal methods, methods of analysis and synthesis. The results of the study allowed us to show that the digital traces of crimes committed using the opportunities of the interbank online Forex currency market are information from fake websites, from accounts (for example, trading) of the victim and third parties.