Oncoming Text method as a resource for students` written, oral speech and associative reasoning development

Abstract

The paper concerns the use of Oncoming Text (countertext) method for teaching foreign postgraduates-philologists academic commenting and essay writing. The types of the psychological reaction (both substantial and relative) of the reading person to the written text are considered within the trend for the dialogization of RFF teaching nowadays. The most widespread psychological reactions of evaluation and opinion are analyzed as well as the reactions of argumentation, free response, orientation, statement, complication, conclusion, generalization, visualization, translation, paraphrasing, association, infixation, supposition, ”intertext”, forecast, sence substitution. Qualification and interpretation of an event, displayed in an exposed written text, as well as the desirable diverse personal psychological reactions to it, often makes foreign students in their foreign language course feel at a loss. That is why the enumerated reaction types are being put into practice. This teaching course is founded on the development of so called associative reasoning (understood as a skill of linking both close and remote facts), conducted in two directions – Logical and Grammatical. Numerous patterns of the concrete training tasks, aimed at it, and the necessary material for creating the Oncoming Text are represented.