Training foreign students of environmental specialties in abstracting scientific texts

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to improve the existing methods of teaching abstracting, taking into account the specific cognitive characteristics and professional orientation of foreign students in the field of natural sciences. The aim of this study is to develop and implement an innovative pedagogical technology aimed at the formation of competencies in the field of abstracting scientific texts in Russian among foreign students specialized in natural sciences. The material of the study was the textbooks for students of ecological specialties, published by the Department of Russian Language No.4 of the Institute of Russian Language of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, and scientific research devoted to the problem of teaching the transformation of primary scientific text into a coherent abstract text in Russian as a foreign language classes. Teaching Russian as a foreign language to students of environmental specialties has its own specifics associated with the scientific style of speech and the need to work with specialized texts. The article is devoted to the principles of transforming sentences into abstract form, familiarizes students with the peculiarities of structure and typical language constructions of scientific and popular scientific publications, and teaches them to compose an abstract as a whole text on their basis. The article substantiates the position that the work according to the scheme “from sentence to text” undoubtedly helps foreign students to master the rules of transforming sentences into abstract form and to study the main abstract frames on the examples of texts on specialty, which leads to a significant simplification of the process of foreign students' perception of scientific and popular science articles from periodicals devoted to the problems of applied sciences. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is based on the principle of gradual complication of didactic material: from work with isolated sentences to the analysis and processing of integral texts of professional orientation.