Malyuga O. Teaching future masters in agriculture to read profession oriented scientific texts in English.

The thesis deals with teaching the students of agrarian master schools to read profession oriented scientific texts in English. The objectives and content of the teaching as well as masters’ information needs have been specified. The English scientific article has been determined as the principal scientific genre. English scientific articles on agriculture have been analyzed for its linguistic characteristics to be determined. It has been proved that teaching masters to read should be based on the student-oriented approach. The optimum model of scientific text reading and the way of teaching to read have been chosen. The objectives of the selected texts for reading have been specified, the qualitative and quantitative principles of scientific text selection have been determined, the English scientific article selection procedure has been presented. The three stages that have been determined to train masters in reading a scientific article are pre-text, while-text and post-text ones. We also determinedthe common and specific skills the master should possess to read an English scientific article on agriculture. These skills are developed by means of the system of exercises we elaborated to train future masters in reading within the credit and modular model of the course arrangement. The effectiveness of the methodology has been proved with the results obtained from the experimental training, which helped us to specify the pre-text stage content. Finally the methodological recommendations on course arrangement are given.