Introduction. The article proves the necessity to teach students how to determine keywords while reading foreign texts to speed up the process of text understanding and operating with texts in search of relevant information. The article reviews contemporary approaches to the problem of text understanding in general and major obstacles for interpreting foreign literary and scientific texts. The purpose of the article is to explain peculiarities of the reading process and determining keywords to improve the quality of information in the text. Moreover there are given practical recommendations which help to form skills as well as the results of implementing the given recommendations and exercises.

Materials and methods.Principal methods are scientific literature analysis and empirical methods which include observation, interview, mathematic methods of data processing.

Results. We have made up the algorithm of teaching text comprehension aiming at the most significant lexical units (depending on the type of the text (literary or scientific) which help to perceive and interpret the text. The article characterizes main stages in text perception and interpretation; gives tasks for reading comprehension combined with the process of keywords searching. There are also results of the experiment which proves that the given strategy helps students to develop general competences for finding keywords as well as scientific competences.

Discussion. The article proves that the meaning of the text equals to the meaning of the set of keywords. As a result of the project a certain method of teaching was elaborated.

Conclusion. Делается вывод о том, что реализация данных алгоритмов будет способствовать ускорению процесса поиска необходимой информации уже на этапе беглого поиска ключевых слов текста.

–     The study determined difficulties in text perception stemming from the nature of the text itself;

–     The study determined universal factors facilitating text comprehension.

–     The authors elaborated some teaching and learning instructions aimed at distinguishing key sentences, phrases and words necessary for text reading and text comprehension.

–     The authors give practical tasks aimed at forming skills for distinguishing keywords.

The study is proven with the results of the experiment of searching keywords for text comprehension.

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