LANGUAGE COMPETENCE AS THE BASIS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH WORK OF THE STUDENTS

The article covers the issue of formation of language competence in the sphere of carrying out and the introduction of the results of academic research work of the students of higher educational institutions. The author says about the timeliness of the improvement of language proficiency level of the university students (the question is the students of non-philological specialties), and proves the necessity of taking actions for formation of language competence of the students within the frames of scientific functional style of the Russian language at different stages of the educational process – starting from baccalaureate and finishing the postgraduate training program. The necessity of such actions is proved by the fact that the higher vocational education is always accompanied by the individual academic research activity (writing of reports, course papers, diplomas, research articles, and so on). The author describes the dependence of quality of the students’ academic research work results on their competence in the sphere of skills in written language and the language special aspects of scientific style. The author also compares the level of development of the students’ language competence in the sphere of academic research activity and the level of formation of scientific thinking in the whole; and gives the definition to the concepts of “language competence”, “language competency” and “text competence”. The article presents the review of literature on the formation of scientific-research and language competence. The author offers the resolution of the issue of formation of the language (text) competence of the university students in the sphere of scientific-research activity, which is, first of all, the possibility of development and introduction of the integrate course “Academic research work of the students” to the educational process. The course will be based on the learning of the basics of scientific text and the development of practical skills for creation texts of different genres of scientific style of the Russian language.