USE OF POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article examines the potential applications of literary texts in English classes at universities' non-linguistic faculties. The linguistic approach, the selection criteria for literary texts, and the significance of pre-text, and posttext work are all taken into consideration. The article also considers whether it is possible and necessary to teach first-year university students studying non-linguistics a foreign language using foreign-language popular science texts, as well as describing the characteristics of English-language scientific and popular science literature. Additionally, a number of elements of popular science literature have been examined in comparison to other forms of scientific literature