Education

The article contains the critical analysis of the concept of “creative class” proposed by Richard Florida in 2002.

The paper discusses some current issues related to the dissemination and perception of English among Russian academe as a medium of international scholarly communication. The content of the paper is based on the available statistical data and the author’s experience of teaching English for academic communication to postgraduates and master students. Particular attention is paid to the sociolinguistic characteristics of a foreign language proficiency and levels of competence characteristic for students and lecturers in various types of speech activity.

The article is devoted to the formation of the academic speech culture of a technical University postgraduates. The author's goal is to describe the forms of work with scientific texts that contribute to the culture of speech formationin general and academic speech in particular. The research methodology is based on the idea of the text as an integral speech work, which is a structural and semantic unity, as well as on the idea of the inseparable connection between the culture of academic speech and the general culture of speech of a person.

This article aims to prove that learning a foreign language as a means of communication is impossible without learning the cultural and social life of the country of the language being studied. Acquaintance with the world of native speakers contributes to understanding the peculiarities of speech construction, additional sense loads, political, historical, cultural connotations of words and statements.