Ключевые слова и фразы: обучение иностранным языкам; обучение чтению; лингвистика текста; абзац; структурно-семантическое ядро; смысловой минимум понимания.
The article is devoted to the linguistic basics of the methodology of teaching to read scientific and technical literature in a foreign language at the senior courses of Bachelor's, Master's programme and postgraduate course in a non-linguistic institution of higher education. The characteristic of the paragraph as a category of language is given. The paper also presents the methods of teaching to read and translate through the mastering of the semantics of the means of representation of various relationships between the concepts in the paragraph and the whole text.
Key words and phrases: foreign language teaching; teaching to read; text linguistics; paragraph; structural-semantic core; semantic minimum of understanding.