Communicative Texts' Modelling of Engineering Profiles as a Methodological Problem

The article presents methodological materials for teaching professional foreign language (Russian), which stimulate foreign students' communicative competence in the sphere of educational and professional communication. The structure of texts in terms of their communicative purpose is analyzed and the subject of speech in the "fabric" of the text based on the example of texts in "General Electrical Engineering" is discussed. The proposed approach introduces international students to the particularities and traditions of the presentation of scientific and technical information adopted by Russian engineering schools as one factor in the development of language culture