Трудности в подготовке студентов транспортного вуза

Abstract

A foreign language teacher can face a number of difficulties in training students of a transport university. Peculiarities of linguistic training dictate the list of professional competences formed in students. Thus, proceeding from Federal Educational Standard and employers’ requirements, it is possible to speak about the need to form students’ foreign-language communicative competence (linguistic competence, in particular) studying English at the level of professional communication. However, before defining the best strategy of teaching a foreign language, students’ personal qualities must be studied. The present article considers diagnostics and subsequent analysis of personal and motivational characteristics of students. The study was based on the following hypothesis: transport university students, regardless of their age, have similar leading personal characteristics. Taking into account the objective, subject and hypothesis, the methodology by A.G. Gretsov «Big Five» of personal qualities» was chosen for the study. It is based on the personality model by R. McCray and P. Cost (1983-1985). A large number of variations in the diagnostics techniques for the «big five» personality features in different languages make it possible to suggest that the «big five» (extroversion, neuroticism, openness, consciousness, benevolence) does contain universal key characteristics that provide an opportunity to «see» the personality and predict its behavior. Having considered the information obtained after the analysis of the results of the «Big Five» test, we can note that students of the studied training program are distinguished by two leading characteristics which are openness to new experience and neuroticism. It may be also noted that, growing older, students become more emotionally stable. Over time, such characteristic as neuroticism decreases, but the increase in the amount of students with such characteristic as consciousness is also recorded.