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Genre and Discourse-Based Approach to Building L2 Professional Interaction Skills

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Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives (IEEHGIP 2022)

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The article discusses the potential of professional discourses for teaching LSP to Russian-speaking students. Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to specialist discourse as a methodological resource for understanding students’ needs. By analyzing professional communication through legal and engineering discourses, the article shows how LSP curriculum should be designed. We started with an overview of legal and engineering discourses with special emphasis on interacting discourse mode that is inherent in the oral forms of the considered discourse types. At the next stage, the genres and related text types that use interacting discourse mode were described. A special focus of the study was on how interacting discourse mode regulates spoken communication in the contexts of giving legal advice and delivering research results to public. Based on the data obtained, we could reconsider the skill sets required for providing legal assistance and delivering research results using prosodic means. This paper shows that discourse profiles of legal and engineering specialists can be viewed as a reference point for designing LSP courses. The findings of the study have important implications for other languages, professional contexts, and aspects of language use.

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    Tatiana Polushkina & Maria Voskresenskaya

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Polushkina, T., Voskresenskaya, M. (2020). Genre and Discourse-Based Approach to Building L2 Professional Interaction Skills. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_24

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