WRITTEN DISCURSIVE COMPETENCE AS A COMPONENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF LAW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Keywords:
discourse, written discursive competence, communicative competence, text, law students, written tasks, writing, coherence, cohesionAbstract
The paper discusses written discursive competence as a main element of foreign language communicative competence of the students of Tashkent State University of Law. Indeed, written discursive competence is the writer’s ability to generate various types of discourse for involvement in written foreign language communication with the intended addressee in order to achieve the desired result, depending on the sociocultural setting and communicative task. Because written discursive competence is a complicated multicomponent phenomenon, its structure distinguishes a number of subcompetences, which are thoroughly discussed in the article. Prior to the discussion part, the author focuses on the definition of the terms “discourse” and “discursive competence”, relying on the perceptions of various scholars. Also, the differences of “discourse” and “text” are introduced accordingly, and the tasks for the formation of discursive competence of law students in this very context are outlined with their specific characteristics. It is deemed that these tasks are of importance in teaching writing to the students in the law field.
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