SOME LINGVOSTATISTICAL CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF MATERIAL TO TEACH NON-LINGUISTIC STUDENTS FOREIGN LANGUAGES
The article is devoted to the problems of selecting textual material for teaching foreign languages to students of non-linguistic specialties. The authors discuss this problem from the point of view of linguistic statistics, emphasize the need to develop a specialty model, which should determine what texts are to be offered to students in the learning process. The paper also considers various genres of literature: popular science, general scientific, highly specialized, which should the basis of teaching, and concludes in favor of texts that correspond to the profile of education, but not highly specialized. The article points out the need to take into account both the lexical content of texts and their structure, volume and information saturation coefficient.