TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT A MASTER DEGREE PROGRAM

The study of French as a specialty language begins in bachelor level. The goal of various two-year master programs of the Foreign Languages Departments of the Peoples Friendship University of Russia is to train higher education graduates, namely bachelors. It is necessary to take into consideration the linguistic and professional components of the foreign language training. In the master program, the foreign language for academic purposes should be of primary importance, because it develops the language and communicative competences in the academic area. Language training for academic purposes and scientific communication assumes the skills of communication with a scientific style of speech. Finally, it is realized in writing and delivering a master thesis in French. Thus, the Master program creates the conditions to train high-level specialists who have the competence of professional communication in a foreign-language. The students who study at the PFUR must demonstrate their knowledge not only of scientific literature on the chosen specialty, the ability to solve specific tasks related to professional activity, the skills of using modern methods and technologies, creative abilities and communicative competences in both native and foreign languages. In accordance with the requirements of the PFUR foreign languages departments, the delivery of master theses is conducted in a foreign language. A candidate, not less than one month before the delivery, must present the speech in writing to the instructor-consultant in a foreign language. A master who successfully delivered a thesis in a foreign language receives a second diploma - a diploma of foreign language interpreter.