Structure and specifics of receptive lexical skills' formation in reading foreign professional literature

The article deals with the actual problem of receptive lexical skills and abilities structure, which is relevant in qualitative continuing professional development. The authors consider the specifics of foreign vocabulary learning in the process of professional literature reading. The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of receptive lexical skills and abilities formation based on the two-component concept of lexical skills organization formulated in Russian methods of teaching foreign languages. The analysis of the literature on the formation and structure of lexical skills and abilities structure is used as the main method of the research. Detailed characteristics of receptive lexical skills and abilities structure based on the two-component concept and the specifics of their formation in dialectical relationship are given. The authors developed and detailed the nomenclature of receptive lexical abilities, which are formed in the process of professional literature reading. Scientific novelty of the research results in evidence to apply two-component model of lexical skill to form receptive lexical skills and abilities. Two components, “Choice” and “Compatibility”, allow to describe receptive lexical skills and abilities structure more rationally and to control their formation in the process of professional literature reading in the independent work of students more efficiently. The proposed structure of receptive lexical skills and abilities allows to work out educational complexes aimed at vocabulary development on the base of foreign professional literature reading.