Dobrynina O. L. ACADEMIC WRITING: PROOFREAING TEACHING AT THE FINAL STEP OF A FOREIGN TEXT WRITING. LIFELONG EDUCATION: The 21st Century.
2021. № 2 (34). DOI: 10.15393/j5.art.2021.6930


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ACADEMIC WRITING: PROOFREAING TEACHING AT THE FINAL STEP OF A FOREIGN TEXT WRITING

Dobrynina Oksana L.
PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages for natural-technical specialties and areas, Institute of Foreign Languages
Petrozavodsk State University
(Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation)
oksdobr@mail.ru
Keywords:
academic writing
self-control skills
grammar and lexical mistakes
competent professional speech		 Abstract: the task of teaching future specialists to the basics of well-bred professional speech in their native and foreign languages is quite important today. Nowadays schoolchildren and students have not gained sufficient skills and abilities of creating a competent written text, they have not developed the skill to see and correct mistakes in their own texts. This situation may result from the lack of the methodology for teaching students to post-translation editing of their own texts, the widespread use of computer typing and current change in the nature of students’ reading practice. The author proposes a method of gradual formation of self-control skills in students of non-linguistic specialties when they write texts in a foreign language. The developed system of exercises «find and correct a mistake», special tests, the practice of mutual editing (peer review), memos with mistakes typical for each student made it possible to form students’ stable proofreading skills to find and correct typical grammatical and lexical mistakes. The developed method can be used by teachers of both foreign and Russian languages when teaching schoolchildren, bachelors, masters and graduate students of non-linguistic specialties. However, it should be noted that this method does not fully teach students to see and correct stylistic errors in the texts they create.
Paper submitted on: 03/30/2021; Accepted on: 04/27/2024; Published online on: 06/26/2021.

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