Natalia Negrych

The present research examines a set of methods and approaches concerning using modern linguistic innovations in teaching English as a foreign language. Communicative linguistics is among the priority directions in this field. The purpose of the research lies in establishing the efficiency of using a communicative approach for learning English in the framework of university education; the attitude of Ukrainian students to the communicative method, the involvement of the possibilities of communicative linguistics in mastering English is determined. The methodology of the research is complex, based on the pedagogical experiment. Descriptive method, synthesis and analysis have been used to determine the theoretical fundamentals of the research. Statistical methods have been used to measure the achievements and attitudes of the experiment participants. The main hypothesis lies in the fact that the methods and tools of communicative linguistics facilitate and speed up the process of maste...

The paper focuses on idioms of the English language as a reflection of the author’s view of the world in the writings of British postmodern writers. It is essential to be familiar with such linguistic routines of the language as idioms or phraseological units so as to be able to occasionally deviate from them if necessary. The paper aims to describe the transformations of phraseological units in some texts by Jasper Fforde. It proposes a comprehensive approach that integrates generally scientific, generally linguistic and phraseological methods and techniques of analysis.

The article is devoted to the formation of interpretation skills in high-school students and teaching the notions of interpretation with the purpose of obtaining interpretation competence. There were presented didactic principles of translation teaching during English lessons. We emphasized the importance of adhering to the principles of translation training, as well as highlighting effective principles that should be applied for methodical reasons. The main task of the teacher at the initial stage of studying translation can be defined − teaching students to distinguish and identify structured elements of translation, the reasons for their use and the ability to operate the components of interpretation. Particular attention is given to the formation and development of the interpreter's skills. The main task of the teacher was defined and a set of exercises was developed. The four stages for the formation a competent specialist lead to obtaining special interpreter's skills in ...