Annotation
Contemporary Didactics as a Space for Multidisciplinary Communication
This course deals with a wide range of issues involved in the teaching of English. Phenomena are studied comprehensively in the light of mutual interaction between several relevant disciplines, particularly parole ones. The topics include the position of individual linguistic disciplines in the undergraduate curriculum; linguodidactic characteristics of educative text and its special features; didactic communication against the background of communication in general; communicative framework, situational and mental factors of communication; production and reception of text and discourse; relationship between the producer?s intention and recipient?s comprehension; schemes, scenarios and frames; norms and conventions of mutual interaction; orality and literacy; various sociolects including genderlects; the relationship between the textual and FSP themes in discourse; metalinguistic communication; first language acquisition by children and foreign language acquisition by children and adults; bilingualism; language and thought, verbal and non-verbal communication; language pathology, speech centres in the brain, etc.