A LINGUISTIC AND DIDACTIC MODEL OF TEACHINGENGLISH RESEARCH ARTICLE WRITINGTO DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Анотація

Writing for research purposes in English has become extremely important for Ukrainian researchers in
view of Ukraine’s movement towards European integration and westernization of the country’s educational
standards. However, the teaching and learning of English research writing requires elaboration and application
of specifi c pedagogical approaches suitable for Ukrainian educational context. This paper revisits and
discusses a linguistic and didactic model of teaching English research article writing, the initial variant of
which was elaborated twenty years ago and further developed as part of the English for Academic Purposes
course for doctoral students majoring in sciences. The model is based upon the concept of genre which
provides a holistic vision of various communicative, cognitive and linguistic features of different types of
texts. It consists of three major stages with several sub-stages and ensures students’ consecutive movement
from an introductory stage to a higher level of learning writing. The discussed model has a number of
pedagogical advantages as it provides a starting point for writing, possesses a linguistic focus essential for
those who learn English outside the immediate sphere of its functioning, and can potentially be used in
similar educational contexts.
Keywords: a linguistic and didactic model, genre, genre-based approach to writing, research writing,
the English research article, English for Academic Purposes.