LINGUISTIC PRECONDITIONS FOR TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED ENGLISH WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The teaching of professionally oriented written speech as a means of remote communication and professionalization plays a significant role today due to the high requirements for the training of specialists in various fields of knowledge and current trends and conditions of professional life. The article is devoted to the linguistic preconditions of teaching professionally oriented English writing in higher education institutions. In particular, the characteristic differences of professionally oriented technical, academic and creative writing as communicative acts are outlined, extralinguistic and linguistic features of professionally oriented written speech are determined, such as accuracy of presentation, conciseness, accessible document design, audience orientation, grammatical, lexical and textual correctness. It is revealed that for teaching professionally oriented English writing it is important to take into account such characteristic features as use of terminology, accuracy of meaning, established word order in phrases, use of constant expressions, use of words with technical colour, use of abbreviations, acronyms, passive constructions, infinitive, gerund and gerund constructions, adjective and adjective constructions. There are also difficulties of a linguistic nature, which students face when writing texts on professional and technical topics. The author analyzes the general stylistic features of the business letter genre, its communicative function, structural and compositional structure, linguistic features and differences in terms of teaching professionally oriented English writing in higher education.