English scientific discourse can be characterized as a key area of the economy principle realization in the form of text compression. The latter carries out a major text-organizing function due to its potential to form implicit meanings and presuppositions thereby minimizing the use of linguistic units while enhancing the informativity of the text. Thus, the given paper is an attempt to provide a general overview of the role of compression in the production of scientific discourse by examining its concrete manifestations at the syntactic and semantic-cognitive levels in the light of some key pragmatic parameters of communication.

Linguistic communication is one of the underlying ways of human interaction. Every day we carry out numerous speech acts trying to interpret others’ speech acts in an attempt to find out whether they suggest, advise, warn or threaten something. Things get more complicated when we deal with people representing other cultures. Particularly in the 21st century when we witness and participate in expansion of intercultural relations in the process of globalization, the role of intercultural pragmatics gets more important. Thus, our investigation is another attempt to compare directive speech acts in the context of the norms of Anglo-Saxon and Armenian cultures. The results of our research give us a chance to claim that the differences of the aforementioned speech acts in Armenian and English are conditioned by different attitudes towards the cultural values rooted deep in the given linguoculture.

Nowadays in the world of endless technological advancements, the rate of student productivity in language learning process has not kept pace. The investigation of factors, which have made student productivity remain stagnant is of great importance. The paper explores the opportunities of increasing student productivity through implementing Communicative Language teaching method, along with preferential Student-Centered approach. The paper also elaborates on the advantages of group work, which is used to develop students’ communicative skills, as well as raise their motivation in L2 learning process.

The development of language competences in the times of deep socio-political crisis and pandemic threats poses some real challenges. The efficiency of learning process is dependent on the implementation and successful blending of innovative methods of teaching. The paper studies the ways various innovative methods of learning intersect creating a new strategy for combining learning methods to meet the changing demands of adult learners.