ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER DISCOURSE AS A MEANS OF FORMING PROFESSION ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS EDUCATED IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN REGIONAL STUDIES

Abstract

Being a specific component of media discourse, electronic newspaper discourse has developed within large-scale transformations in the sphere of mass media brought about by close interaction between traditional mass media and the Internet. This discourse, which is a new type of communication characterized by such features as hypertextuality and interactivity, is shown to play a significant role in modeling professional foreign language communicative environment for educating specialists in the field of foreign regional studies. The language of quality press has always been considered a valuable source for compiling professional vocabulary and text corpus in teaching professionally oriented foreign language to students of foreign regional studies. However, the more complicated and multi format structure of electronic newspaper articles makes them a unique learning resource, which emerges as a composite of alphabet texts based on printed version content, audio and video files, thus creating opportunities for integrated development of students’language skills, the latter being realized within contextual learning methods as well. Electronic newspaper texts are useful for forming electronic corpus of regional studies discourse aiming at compiling professional vocabulary.