TRAINING READING SKILLS AS PART OF ONLINE SUPPORT OF THE COURSE "FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE" USING A DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH AT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Training reading skills when studying a foreign language can make a significant contribution to studying professional terminology in a foreign language, especially if it is properly organized. Development of online technologies makes it possible not only to improve the knowledge of language, but also to use differentiated approach to studying, taking into account the initial level of knowledge of students. The research is based on the online support of the course "Professionally-oriented foreign language", developed for Masters of the major "Chemical Technology", specialization "Technology of manufacturing of lacquers and paints. Industrial painting". Three learning paths are offered in the framework of the course: basic, intermediate and advanced. To train reading skills in a foreign language, each module presents three texts of different complexity and corresponding tasks, which are also developed taking into account the student's trajectory. When working out the content of the course, the Flash Index was used to determine the level of text complexity. The type of the task for the student to do is chosen taking into account two factors: the type of reading that is trained, and the stage of working with the text (pre-text, text, or post-text stage). The approbation and feedback of students showed that skimming and scanning are the most effective types of reading training at the basic level, scanning and reading for detail - at the intermediate level, and reading for detail - at the advanced level.