UDC 372.881.1 BBK 74.47

Kornilova S. A.

The article describes the experience of using the resources of brititshcouncil website for training college students reading skills. Various tasks are presented for more objective control of the reading skills in addition to the proposed tasks on the site. The tasks are accompanied by the developed criteria for their evaluation.

Кeywords: types of reading, forms of control, assignments for the development of reading skills, criteria for assessing the completed tasks.

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UDC 372.881.111.1 BBK 74.268.1Англ

Popova E. I., Murzin A. A.

The phenomenon of a «socialization of a language» is described on the basis on the phylogenesis [phylon + genetikos. Greek]. The authors of this article regard the category of a language in the connection of the following notions: a social phenomenon, an individual personal co-knowledge, foreign culture, basic language functions.

The peculiarity of marking the fragmented reality using verbal and nonverbal means is defined by cultural / social / political differences between nations, population, communities and so on. It is a cluster of a universal and individual experience.

The typology of interaction between a native and foreign languages in the process of communication is presented in the article. This typology can be used to create technologies to teach students using different English Grammar phenomena.

The practical part is based on some psychological traits, defining the mental peculiarity of contemporary teens. Their perception of the environment and the ability to analyse the information is marked by a special term «a clip thinking».

The theoretical aspect of the article is the basis to teach students to understand the peculiarity of marking fragmented reality using the following Grammar Tenses: Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous and further using these Grammar means in foreign communication.

Keywords: «socialization of a language», «basic language functions», «foreign culture», «second / once again cognition of a reality», «typology of interaction between languages», «clip thinking», «fragmentation».

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UDC 372.881.1 BBK 74.268.1

Bogdanova O. S.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

The article is devoted to the study of the urgent problem concerning foreign language education in the conditions of development of intercultural relations, intercultural communication, cooperation. It shows the vital need for new approaches to the training of future foreign language teachers in connection with the rapid processes of globalization, informational support, technologization, intercultural communication. Long-term theoretical and empirical research of the author, confirmed by the figures and data of surveys and professional observations allowed to conclude that there is a need to change the system of training of foreign language teachers to meet the new challenges of education, to make this system not subject-oriented, but professional as well as cultural-oriented.

Keywords: foreign language education, language, intercultural communication, foreign language teacher, linguodidactic discourse, metasubject results, subject results.

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