Modular technology of teaching foreign language vocabulary of scientific style to postgraduates

Introduction. The choice of effective technology for teaching a foreign language at the level of postgraduate education is a key factor for its successful mastering. Innovative methods and tools not only increase trainees’ involvement in the learning process, but also make it flexible, combined, active and creative. These characteristics correspond to the modular technology, the best defining the strategy of foreign language professionally oriented learning in postgraduate education. The researches review and analytical examinanation revealed low theoretical and practical development of the application of modular technology in the process of teaching foreign language vocabulary of scientific style to postgraduates. This issue, however, is relevant for such a category of trainees, as they are deeply involved in scientific research and actively use foreign databases. Methods. The research is based on a set of methods: analysis of pedagogical and linguistic literature, comparative analysis (comparison of expressing lexical concepts in English and Russian), questionnaire-diagnostic method, and observation. Results. The author specifies and substantiates the relevance of modular technology application in postgraduate programs of educational organisations of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia, reveals the features of modular technology in teaching how to use foreign language vocabulary of scientific style, outlines the criteria for selecting teaching material into blocks. Accordingly, the programme of modular teaching of foreign language vocabulary of scientific style is developed and recommendations on organising modular teaching of postgraduates are formulated. The author revealed that modular technology in postgraduate education makes it possible to study a foreign language in a more structured and organised form. Each module, being a separate unit of training, has clear recommendations for implementation and is studied independently within the framework of auditorium and extracurricular activities. It is important that the traditional teaching system is not totally eliminated, but combined with modular technology. This generally improves the effectiveness of the process of teaching foreign language vocabulary of scientific style to postgraduates.