Career-oriented foreign language teaching for secondary vocational education students

Abstract

Introduction. Many secondary vocational education students express a desire to get higher education. At the same time, a foreign language can play an important career guidance role and contribute to the formation of students' professional identity. However, the implementation of career-oriented foreign language teaching is directly dependent on the approach used and the choice of the content of training. The purpose of the study is to develop a method for career-oriented foreign language teaching to secondary vocational education students. Materials and methods. The study involved students of the department of secondary vocational education at Derzhavin Tambov State University (Russian Federation). In addition to learning a foreign language according to program requirements, participants in the control group (N=30), who used the language for special purposes, and the experimental group (N=30), who used an integrated approach, studied career guidance materials. The objects of control were: grammar, active vocabulary, types of speech activity, foreign language professionally oriented integrative tasks. For data analysis, the Student's t-test method was used. Research results. Content and language integrated learning has proven to be effective incareer-oriented foreign language teaching to secondary vocational education students, as well as in mastering their grammar (t = 4.00; p ≤ 0.05), active vocabulary (t = 5.38; p ≤ 0, 05); speaking (t = 1.74; p ≤ 0.05), reading (t = 2.24; p ≤ 0.05), writing (t = 2.97; p ≤ 0.05), listening (t = 3.52; p ≤ 0.05), performing professionally oriented integrative tasks in a foreign language (t = 5.38; p ≤ 0.05). Conclusion. The novelty of the research lies in the creation of a methodology for career-oriented foreign language teachingto secondary vocational education students based on an integrated approach. The results obtained can be used in the development of methods for career-oriented foreign language teaching to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as secondary school students. Keywords: career guidance, professional identity, integrated approach, secondary professional education