Teaching graduate students research discourse via tandem-method

The paper is dedicated to the development of new methods of teaching writing research discourse of graduate students on the basis of the tandem method. Under the research discourse in the study the authors mean the process and the result of the expression and interpretation of research knowledge for further gradual improvement of existing or the synthesis of new research. Teaching written research discourse to graduate students includes training such genres of research writing as a thesis, a monograph, a research paper, an abstracts of the report or presentation at the conference, a grant application to participate in a scientific event (conference or congress), a research report, a research dialogue (forum), a presentation of speeches, a poster, a review, an abstract. A tandem method is proposed as one of the new methods of training written research discourse. Under the tandem method the authors propose a method of acquisition, learning or teaching, based on the partnership of those involved in the educational process. This partnership can be formed by students (student-student), a student and a teacher (student-teacher) and teachers (teacher-teacher). Training graduate students written research discourse based on tandem includes eleven stages: 1) introduction; 2) explanation of the structure of a particular research paper; 3) development of structural elements of writing a research paper written in training exercises; 4) discussion in the learners' native and foreign languages the content of training and written paper structure; 5) preparation of a sample written paper; 6) assessment of the students' sample written paper; 7) discussion of the results of the students' sample written papers; 8) setting the goal of writing individual research written papers based on the problems of each student's research; 9) writing research papers by students; 10) assessment of students' written papers and their discussion with each student; 11) reflection. Exact functions of a foreign language teacher, a teacher of profile specialization and students are clearly defined.

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