Teaching to annotate the foreign sources in the formation of professional competence of students in non-linguistic higher educational establishments

Abstract

The article  deals  with  the  methodological  potential  of  teaching  annotating
the  sources  in  foreign  languages  not  only  for  the  formation  of  the  linguistic
competence of students, but also for the formation of professional competence, that
contribute the development of intelligence and cognitive style of students of nonlinguistic high schools. The author analyzes some concepts   such as "professional
competence",  "annotation",  "abstract",  "inference",  "co-reference".The  author
considers  such  mechanisms  as  inference,  co-reference  and  conceptualization  of
professional knowledge. The author considers the annotation as the best means of
learning and conceptualization of semantic information professional texts.
The  first  concept  to  consider  is  «professional  competence»  a  part  of  the
conceptual system of the person. This system includes a combination of knowledge,
skills  and  habits  formed  in  the  process  of  learning  a  particular  discipline  and
necessary  for  professional  work  in  the  target  language.  The  second  is
«annotating», a transfer of the basic ideas of the original source in the form of a
coherent written or oral text, based on the allocation of the macrostructure of the
primary text. The third is «annotation». It is a result of the annotating. The fourth
is  «inference». It  is a  conclusion  formed  in  the  process  of  communication  as  an
interpretation of the messages and may be based on information known due to the
context  of  the  situation, due  to  the  previous  speech  context  or   life  experience  in
communication  and  sociocultural  knowledge.  The  fifth  is  «co-reference»  which
defines such a characteristic of the scientific text as his cognition and intelligence.
The  mechanisms  of  inference,  co-reference  and  conceptualization  of
professional knowledge are described in the article. It was found that annotating is
an  optimal  way  for  learning  and  conceptualizing  the  semantic  information  of
specialized texts.
Keywords:  Annotation,  professional  competence,  inference,  co-reference,
conceptualization.