Criteria for the selection of scientific materials when teaching foreign languages to cadets of military universities

teaching foreign languages is a necessary component of all levels of education. Military education is no exception, but the goals and objectives of studying foreign languages in military educational institutions have their own characteristics. They are associated with the professional focus of the educational environment, as well as the need to form high moral qualities of future military personnel. These features directly affect the work of a foreign language teacher, the choice of approaches to teaching, and rethinking the system of criteria for selecting educational materials. The need to cover the events of a special military operation made this search daily, which, accordingly, entails changes in the structural and substantive content of the lesson itself. Competent selection of material for teaching students of military universities foreign languages is the main technique for activating attention and a factor stimulating cadets to study a foreign language. The system of criteria for selecting educational materials (texts) for cadets of military educational institutions includes two main groups of criteria: didactic and pedagogical and linguodidactic. Didactic and pedagogical criteria are responsible for the content of the text and are leading in military educational institutions. Lingvodidactic criteria evaluate the language aspect of the educational text. Not all texts can be used in foreign language classes with future military personnel; they must meet such requirements as informative and cognitive, pragmatic, linguistic value, thematic relevance, patriotism, situationality and communicativeness, authenticity, feasibility and accessibility, diversity of verbal and visual means, technical accessibility. Careful selection of foreign language educational material will help the teacher build a competent, effective system of teaching a foreign language that meets modern socio-political realities.

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