Didactic features of using video materials in English lessons for engineering students

Abstract

Foreign language teachers for engineering specialties are faced with the task of forming and developing communicative competencies within the framework of a professional orientation. It leads to an increase in the duration of mastering the material by students at the initial stage of training (1 course), since specialized disciplines are taught later. In this regard, the specific goal of teaching a foreign language at a university is to form a general idea of the objects for professional activity in solving specific engineering problems. Therefore, it is necessary to apply an interdisciplinary approach and include material that is professionally significant for the students. The content of the "Foreign language" discipline for engineering majors is determined by the content of the lexical part of the educational material, which includes general vocabulary, interdisciplinary vocabulary and professionally oriented vocabulary. The peculiarities of teaching the discipline "Foreign language" for engineering specialties is the active use of terminological, illustrative and video materials. Foreign language teachers for engineering majors now have the opportunity to use audiovisual resources (to improve the acquisition of the target language) to motivate students. This article presents an analysis of the role and effectiveness of video as an authentic material for developing an understanding professionally oriented vocabulary in the course of learning a foreign language for engineering majors. The author considers the principles of selecting educational video material and its organizing, taking into account the goals of a foreign language lesson for students of engineering majors and students of oil and gas industry. Also author provides an approximate lesson plan using authentic video material for students of oil and gas industry.