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Teaching Foreign Language Communication in the Context of a Functional and Semantic Approach
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This paper explores the functional-semantic methodology of foreign language teaching for non-philologists. It surveys schools in Kazakhstan, the USA and some European countries and the grammatical and semantic features of English used for professional communication. In surveying programmes, methodologies, and resources, fundamental concepts for professional grammar and vocabulary were established. Evidence suggests that using speech patterns in professionally orientated communication enhances learning in foreign languages. Transformative practices facilitate the improvement of communicative competence by incorporating flexible grammar patterns and transforming language units into “real life” scenarios. A semantic study shows that professionally orientated thematic vocabulary fields help professionals remember and use language units. The functional-semantic methodology structures pedagogical information coherently and maximises the relationship between form, meaning, and scenarios. The Kazakhstani experience shows that tourism professionals should be trained in intercultural communication, professional vocabulary and terminology, and grammatical transformations. The functional-semantic methodology is a foreign language teaching methodology for professionally orientated learning and offers insightful curriculum and resource recommendations, the paper concludes.
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Keywords
Communication Competence; Lexicalised Grammatical Material; Syntactic Synonymy; Situation Modelling
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This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement
Zarina Takuova: Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – Original Draft
Kulzhanat Bulatbayeva: Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing
Zhanarsyn Kapenova: Validation, Investigation, Writing – Review & Editing.
Maigul Shakenova: Visualization, Formal analysis, Methodology
Anargul Zhumakhanova: Data curation, Resources
Generative AI Use Disclosure Statement
The authors used the AI tool ChatGPT (developed by OpenAI) for English language editing, including grammar refinement and sentence structure adjustments. The authors take full responsibility for the content and interpretations presented in this manuscript.
Ethics Declarations
World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki–Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Participants
All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki, the ethical principles to conduct any medical research involving human participants.
Competing Interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Data Availability
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author.