TECHNOLOGY OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMIC WRITING TO STUDENTS OF NON-PHILOLOGICAL SPECIALITIES

The article deals with the issue of effective technologies of teaching academic writing to students of non-philological specialities with regard to the realities of Ukrainian higher educational institutions. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the technology of teaching academic writing and to validate its effectiveness experimentally on the basis of Uzhhorod National University. The theoretical (content-analysis of the sources of subject study, ar-rangement and generalization of theoretical assumptions, substantiation and elaboration of the technology model) and empirical research methods (scientific observation, methodological experiment, methods of mathematical statis-tics) were used to achieve the research goal. It has been justified that creation of the product of foreign language academic writing requires the students of non-philological specialties to possess the following skills: to define inten-tion and main idea of utterance, to see connection between expressed thoughts; to correctly use lexical units, namely terms in the professional filed; to correctly use grammatical structures that comply with a certain genre of academic written communication; to classify and evaluate the role of lexical, grammatical and stylistic tools of foreign lan-guage in effectiveness of message transfer; to understand influence of the chosen verbal means on effectiveness of speaking and addressee's communicative intention. The model of teaching technology of academic writing has been presented. The effectiveness of suggested technology of teaching academic writing to students of non-philological specialities has been proved by two-staged methodological experiment.