TEACHING SKILLS IN GIVING A SCIENTIFIC TALK USING UNIVERSAL SPEECH PATTERNS: MODULAR APPROACH (NON-LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY, MASTER’S DEGREE LEVEL)
The article discusses peculiarities of teaching a foreign language to physics and mathematics master students. a specially prepared study has revealed a common feature of various learning modules, that is based on a universal language of mathematics with which the students are familiarized; in view of the results obtained, a set of exercises has been proposed aimed at developing the skills of giving a scientific talk. the key idea of the strategy is integrating the so-called universal speech patterns into the masters’ degree programme and their future professional activity, which are speech clichés subject to certain rules of notation, classification, combination, transformation and application. the suggested approach can significantly increase the students’ learning motivation, allow achieving better results under severe time constraints, as well as develop a solid foundation for would-be professionals’ independent study.