Maria Kopylovskaya

St Petersburg University | SPBU · Philology Department

Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of academic English for specific/academic purposes (ESAP) is often underestimated and outsourced to students’ independent study with minimal instructors’ intervention. Students often demonstrate inability to gain knowledge about basic conventions established...

The article deals with the issue of internationalization of higher education, in particular, in the sphere of language pedagogy. The study is based on the materials of the research conducted within the framework of the academic mobility project exercised 2018-2019 in Saint Petersburg State University and in Harbin Institute of Technology (visited N...

The article deals with the issue of facilitating learning the specific features of spoken professional communication for International Relations through discourse analysis. The authors present an EFL methodology solution to the problem of teaching ESP to International Relations students based on a strong determination to use the latest advancements...

The focus of the research is on conceiving a new ESP methodology course under the influence of the most fundamental changes that were introduced into the modern society by the advent of Digital Age. The paper regards the current period of language education as transitional as the theoretical gains of the past research are gradually transformed or e...

The paper is devoted to the implications of education foresight prognoses for two major contraposed ESP areas: English for Science and Technology (hard-core ESP) and English for Humanitarian Sciences (soft-core ESP) taught for adult learners in higher education. In the article the authors quote the mismatch between graduates’ qualifications and rea...

Abstract. The paper presents result of a modest-scale research into the problem of learners’ cultural unawareness about cultures of the East countries suffering the conflicts of global importance within the context of wider “West-East” cultural divide in ESP for International Relations. Different aspects of the problem are studied through an attemp...

The article deals with the issue of fostering intercultural competence through global news programs. The authors consider key concepts of the issues taking Hofstede’s viewpoint on culture and his ‘culture onion’ as the basis for understanding whether and how global news can be involved into building intercultural skills so relevant to the globalize...