Развитие креативности как надпрофессионального навыка у взрослых обучающихся на занятиях по деловому английскому языку

Abstract

The aim of the study is to substantiate the expediency of using the communicative types of educational activities that require divergent thinking among postgraduate students within the framework of the business English programme. The paper considers the specifics of using the effective pedagogical technologies in working with adult learners (case technology, role-playing and intellectual games, problem-and-search-based and project activities) in order to provide the most favourable creative educational environment; describes the experience of developing the skill of creativity among postgraduate students within the framework of the business English programme. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that teaching English for specific purposes is considered in the context of creative andragogy and the following andragogical conditions for the implementation of the principle of educational process creativisation are identified: adaptability of teaching, individual approach, variability of teaching, as well as a balance between creative and traditional types of work. As a result of analysing scientific and methodological literature, observing and summarising accumulated pedagogical experience in this field, the authors present practical recommendations on the development of creativity in adults as an important supra-professional skill.