The discipline "The Russian Language and the Culture of Speech" as an Element of Training Specialists in the Sphere of Agriculture
The knowledge of the culture of speech is an index of the professional qualification of people of different forms of occupation, including their activity in agribusiness. The culture of speech as a part of linguistics has some specific characteristics: the demand to use correctly phonetical, grammatical and lexical units, communicative correctness, logical narration, informational and emotional expressiveness. One of the main tasks of teaching the discipline «The Russian language and the Culture of Speech» in an agrarian higher school is the improvement of speech skills, mastering the norms of the professional language and the cultural skills of communication. Teaching this discipline should include the active use of communicative methods and the development of creative ways of thinking. Communicative competence being the main object of teaching future specialists require the knowledge of specific characteristics of different styles of the language, the ways to connect sentences and phrases and choose linguistic units depending on the situation and tasks of communication. The difficulties in the process of teaching this discipline to students of agriculture are shown. The authors offer the algorithm of using teaching methods and the types of exercises which will provide the knowledge of the correct speech and the culture of communication.