No 1 (2012)

The article outlines the concepts of creativity and the creative pedagogy. The attention is paid to the necessity of formation of students' creative abilities while teaching translation of scientific texts.

The axiom that an interpreter translates not words but the meaning requires his ability to generate the instinct of perceiving the maximum possible volume of the information to be translated. Such instinctive perception is to activate an interpreter`s intuitive perception of the meaning in one language as well as his ability to provide rational interpretation of it by expressive means of the other language.

The article studies the methodology of developing foreign students' linguistic competence, as far a the first certificate level is concerned. The integrative approach, coordination and interaction of language system and usage aspects are in the focus.

Article considers one of the methods of language games, named the reception strikeout, which is used in Internet communication. The mechanisms of creating a game effect are investigated.

Article considers analysis of content and structure of pedagogic model of academic medical discourse. Basic levels and categories of the model are analyzed, main criteria of their linguodidactic interpretation are revealed.

The article is devoted to the problem of the territorial differentiation of the Portuguese vocabulary. The author gives a paradigm of the territorial marked portuguese words that includes panporugalisms, variantisms, dialectisms and regionalisms.

In this article peculiarities of teaching verbs of motion to Chinese students are under analysis. Typical mistakes are described, some recommendations on their correction and prevention are given.

An innovation approach, which presumes stimulation of the process related to formation of the secondary foreign language speaking personality in schoolchildren on the basis of interested learning of an exotic foreign language under the conditions of organized inter-cultural communication, which is extended at the expense of international cultural integration of schools, is discussed. This approach may become the ground for solving the problems bound up with self-education and self-upbringing of schoolchildren, which cannot be solved by traditional techniques.

This paper considers the notion of topic and its role in a textbook aimed at enhancing speech skills of learners of Russian as a second language. Additionally, it examines how to select a topic, its cognitive organization, and structural specifics of the texts and their headings as related to the students' educational level.

In this article conception of modern textbook for students learning Russian out of the language environment is suggested. To achieve this aim it was necessary to solve the following problems: to reveal students' communicative needs, which influence the amount and level of their communicative competence; to give systematic description of the components of structure of the textbook on practical course of Russian language; to analyze the language and communicative components of the manual content and its communicative structure; to elaborate the structure of the manual units, to characterize main teaching technologies realized.