Abstract
The article studies a new approach to the design of Vocational English courses included into a lager field of English for Specific Purposes or ESP. The courses aimed at the development of foreign communicative competence of Science and Engineering students are in the focus of this research. The approach is an attempt of the integration of the competence model with the paradigm of discourse analysis. This provides a holistic understanding of speech activity as a socially related process and increases the effectiveness of communicative competence development because the discursive practices of the experts’ community semantically specify the professional communication of its participants.
Highlights
The globalization process in various scientific fields and in higher education has led to the urgency of improvements to bolster research capabilities of educational institutions
Obtaining communicative skills of Vocational English contributes to the solution of economically relevant tasks such as a rise of human capital assets and competitiveness in the labour market. To deal with these issues as a whole, it is reasonable to increase the degree of integration of highly specialized technical and engineering disciplines with philological skills of ESP courses. This requires the introduction of new approaches to the English Language Teaching, in terms of its methodology, and in terms of materials design influencing the content of ESP course, the syllabus, and the selection of teaching resources
This study shows that the employment of the discursive paradigm to apply the theoretically approved methods of discourse analysis will help to solve a number of practical tasks in designing the effective ESP courses in the framework of the competence approach
Summary
The globalization process in various scientific fields and in higher education has led to the urgency of improvements to bolster research capabilities of educational institutions. The increase of publications in English in Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals is the essential part of this policy. In this regard, the development of foreign communicative competence in professional sphere becomes rather attractive and highly demanded. Obtaining communicative skills of Vocational English contributes to the solution of economically relevant tasks such as a rise of human capital assets and competitiveness in the labour market. To deal with these issues as a whole, it is reasonable to increase the degree of integration of highly specialized technical and engineering disciplines with philological skills of ESP courses. This requires the introduction of new approaches to the English Language Teaching, in terms of its methodology, and in terms of materials design influencing the content of ESP course, the syllabus, and the selection of teaching resources
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