No 4 (2014)

The article is devoted to the actual problem of the ways of optimization the educational process at the University in the sphere of Russian as a foreign language. In particular, the author describes discussion and methods and forms of its usage in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

The article analyses the essential rules of summarizing scientific texts on the object properties for the students of technical and natural sciences. It examines sample modifications of sentences where the subject has qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The authors present new textbooks for teaching foreign students of different specialties to summarize Russian scientific texts.

The article is devoted to the problem of motivating students in studying the Russian language. The author draws attention to the necessity of using positive information about the Russian language.

This article examines the problems of communicative-speaking activity: peculiarities of its manifestation, reasons of speaking inactivity, types, criteria and levels of communicative-speaking activity; organization forms of the educational process, increasing students communicative-speaking activity). Its formation provides students-bilinguals with a free operative speech hold.

The use of the principle of harmonization of international relations in teaching Russian as a foreign language is proved. The implementation of the mentioned vital didactic principle in academic, scientific and methodological work of the Chair of the Russian Language is described.

The article is devoted to the history of forming traditions of linguistic education in Russia of the XIX th century and to the role of specialized periodicals in this process.

The article on the material of translation of I.A. Bunin’s novel studies the main principles and specifics of translation of an artistic text from Russian into Arabian.

Mismatching of foreign language teaching methods and learners’ intentions has become a topic problem in teaching Eastern languages. The article describes this problem and proposes the principle of communication-focused instruction as a way of answering learners’ needs.

The present paper deals with the problem of translation of Russian legal terms into English. It analyses English equivalents of the Russian term ‘Advokat’, which form a varied nominative lexical-semantic field, while in the Russianlanguage this one word covers almost the entire scope of legal protection. This fact poses a serious problem in translation and in teaching English to Law students. The article compares the semantic dimensions of the terms, analyses their distinctive features, marks their stylistic and functional differences and suggests some practical recommendation for their translation. The results of the study can be applied in the theory and practice of translation and in teaching Professional English to Law students.

The article analyzes the innovative potential of game technology to form professional dialogical competence of students-economists. The author makes a historical excursion, which helps to look at game theory in the format of intersubject scientific interests. The technological model of educational business game is considered. Educational appeal of game technologies to the modern higher school is proved.

The article presents the author’s elective training course “Theory and methods of ЕSP-teaching” for senior students of institutes of foreign languages.