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The article provides an overview of professional genres described by linguists and methodologists for pedagogical purposes as effective teaching languages and teaching professional genres in particular, remain relevant topics of lively discussions between national methodologists and linguists. Also, the article describes how the concept of genre entered the history of domestic and foreign science and how genre studies became a part of a scientific paradigm. Based on Swales’ Genre Analysis and the Theory of Genres by Bukhtin, the relevance of the description and classification of genres of different professional discourses is underlined. As a result of the analysis of domestic and foreign linguistic and methodological literature on genre studies, sets of genres typical of some professional discourses have been distinguished. These discourses are pedagogical, legal, medical, and military. Special attention is paid to an interdisciplinary genre – a report. Moreover, the limitations of the published studies have been revealed. Thus, it has been found that most authors who pose in their articles the problem of teaching scientific genres to undergraduate and graduate students write mainly about the importance of genre studies and do not point out what opportunities this will give students in the future and how it will help them be successful in the globalization context. The analysis revealed that there are few specific teaching models and real developments devoted to genre competence formation and the use of a genre approach to teaching communication to future specialists, but the studies published in the literature today appear to be quite promising.
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Kolesnikova, N., Ridnaya, Y. (2023). Genres of Professional Discourse in the Interdisciplinary and Methodological Context. In: Isaeva, E., Rocha, Á. (eds) Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century – Innovations and Technologies in Interdisciplinary Applications. Perm Forum 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28086-3_18
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