DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH THE HELP OF INFORMATICS AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

The development of linguistic consciousness at the foreign language lessons is a relevant task for university teachers, since linguistic consciousness is closely related to speech and its perception, the experience of reproducing lexical units in speech, vocabulary replenishment and foreign language interaction. The article describes the development of linguistic consciousness through infographics, which allows the students to represent data in a visually appealing form, transmit information through images, maps and text, stimulating the associative thinking of students, i.e. infographics conveys internal images of linguistic consciousness through external signs. The use of infographics in the process of teaching a foreign language to Master’s Degree students in non-linguistic areas of training at the mathematical and physical faculties is studied Research methods are the analysis of scientific literature on the subject under study, testing and questionnaire. The aim of the study is to develop a methodology for the development of linguistic consciousness of university students at foreign language classes through infographics. The article presents the typology of infographics,describes its advantages, and reveals the stages of the methodology of working with infographics. Infographics makes learning a foreign language subject- and practice-oriented, interesting, as students get opportunities for teamwork and individual work, while developing not only the ability to foreign-language academic and professional interaction, but also linguistic consciousness in general. The obtained practical results can be used in teaching a foreign language to graduate students. A promising area of further research is the introduction of infographics into the educational practice of teaching a foreign language to students of various non-linguistic areas of training at a university.