Promoting Scanning Through Mass Media in The Foreign Language Classroom

This article discusses the little used but important option of application of authentic mass media as a way to give more attention to the process of teaching scanning at the senior stage. The interpretations that define the authentic material, its functionality, types, advantages and requirements are included and special attention is paid to the practical use of available Internet resources in the senior stage of teaching a foreign language. In the course of the comparative analysis the authors describe discrepancies in the use of Russian and foreign methods for working with foreign language learners. Authentic materials recommended by the authors for wide usage in the foreign language classroom are characterized by the naturalness of lexical filling and grammatical forms, situational adequacy of linguistic means, which reflect the national peculiarities and traditions of the construction and functioning of the text. In addition, the methodological recommendations on the organization of work with scanning in the process of preparing students for the final examinations are presented.