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In the informational society while teaching foreign languages the development of students' skills aimed at searching, analyzing, critical thinking, processing and using the obtained information in the productive speech activity is in demand. In this context, the problem of students' cognitive self-study development, aimed at "revealing" knowledge while reading, is becoming increasingly important as reading while teaching foreign languages not only contributes to self-development and self-reflection, but also to the formation of a cross-cultural and linguistic personality, which is a priority of linguistic education. The solution of the above-mentioned problems has defined the aim of our research: it is the development and implementation of technologies for optimizing students' self-study in teaching reading. In the course of our experimental work the implementation of the principle of multi-level approach in the form of five interrelated elements in teaching reading -from the level of mastering reading techniques to the level of critical reading and stylistic comprehension reading -contributed to the ultimate development and improvement of students' constructive-creative self-study. During the experimental work while testing the effectiveness of our methods of cognitive-practical activities, we concluded that in the process of teaching foreign languages, these methods are an effective way of teaching reading, activating students' self-study, forming linguistic creativity, which manifests itself in the ability to produce oral and written discourses based on the creative potential development of a linguistic personality. The results obtained in the experiment can be used in educational process while creating and implementing the algorithm of organizing students' self-study while teaching foreign languages.

In this article are studied the works of American authors of the 21st century, giving their own interpretation of the Holocaust tragedy. The authors focused themselves on the novels of M. Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, of J.S. Foer Everything Is Illuminated and of N. Krauss The History of Love and Great House. In these novels are studied the principles of postmodern esthetic, the principal one being the game. The authors play with mass cultural clichés, the structure and composition of the works by creating fragmental narration, which, like a puzzle, compose finally a complete image for the reader. The principal themes of all those novels are the search of origins, the restitution of familial history and the people's history, the recognitions of personal implication in the Holocaust tragedy.

The article is devoted to defining the peculiarities of national perception through the analysis of the comments taken from news media. The research is based on comparative and contrastive analysis of the reader's comments to the articles devoted to the terroristic attack in Nice happened on July 14, 2016 and reflected in mass media in the French and Russian languages. On the first stage of the research the object of comment and the peculiarities of its representation in two languages are defined. On the second stage of the research the frame analysis of the studied material is fulfilled, consisting of defining the contextual frames. The key topical subframes, which in turn are divided into slots, are determined in the structure of frames. The logical-semantic relations are built among the structural elements of frames. The possibility of crossing topically-different subframes within one frame is demonstrated. The frequency of domination of this or that slot in comments is defined and explained. The allomorphic and isomorphic features defined in the research show the peculiarities of cultural and historical values influencing national mentality.