Open AccessText in the Foreign Language Teaching
Author(s) -
Nadezhda N. Klementsova
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vestnik mgimo-universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9099
pISSN - 2071-8160
DOI - 10.24833/2071-8160-2012-5-26-204-209
Subject(s) - foreign language , comprehension , linguistics , computer science , communicative competence , competence (human resources) , mechanism (biology) , psychology , natural language processing , epistemology , philosophy , social psychology
The article offers a short review of the history of text studies undertaken by different branches of linguistic sciences and focuses on the possibilities of the text in the foreign language classroom aiming at the development of the students’ communicative competence. The text is characterized as a form of language units actualization, as structural and semantic entity giving an insight into the mechanism for sense integration in the processes of text production and comprehension. The text is also described as a base for the development of correlating receptive and productive skills of the students.