Foreign Language Courses Themes for the Senior Students in Specialty "Geodesy and Land Planning"

Abstract

. Nowadays it is paid attention to the problem of thematic content of professional purpose English language сurriculum in general meaning or with the business emphasis or as a course for enrolling to Master ’ s degree course . The purpose of article is the description of foreign language courses for specialty " Geodesy and Land Planning " concerning either the further stage of the bachelor ’ s degree program studying or concerning previous stage of the master ’ s degree program studying as well as comparative analysis of adequate syllabuses on the basis of pedagogical observation during 2019/2020 educational process. The result of investigation lays in 8 conclusions : 1) foreign language course for the master’s degree freshmen’s program is mainly aimed to develop business speech with addition of forming general communicative, professional and scientific communicative skills for all students of all forms of studying according to specialty " Geodesy and Land Planning " ; 2) foreign language course for the second year bachelor’s degree program is mainly tending to prepare students to pass entrance unified exam to enroll magistracy as well as repeating basic grammar, special terms and communicative clichés, it is aimed to be studied only by the advanced group students who had joint the community of future land managers after graduation from the profile colleges and who did not learn foreign language on the first course of studying at the Faculty of Land Management within the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine ; 3) thematic filling of foreign language course for the second year bachelor’s degree advanced group students in land management is similar to some topics to be studied by bachelor’s degree senior students of other specialties too exampling specialty " Forestry and Horticulture " or " Mechanical Engineering " as well as the fourth-year students of specialty " Geodesy and Land Planning " as the future entrants of magistracy ; 4) foreign language course for the second year bachelor’s degree students lasts only one the fourth semester with the planned two or one period a week according to the order of week is seemed to be aimed to update self-studying activity concerning familiarization with the demands for entrance unified foreign language exam passage and adequate training exercises activities ; 5) the foreign language course for the master’s degree program freshmen lasts during two semesters numbering two constant periods a week in order to get acquainted with foreign language environment in details to master and to improve advanced general communicative professional and scientific speech skills of the entrant to graduate school, of active participant of scientific conferences and businessman-clerk ; 6) there are similar demands to fix and to represent the studying results during preparation to the attestation exam on the last lessons : to know basic questions and answers according to the course content, to know the structure of examination card, to know the stages of attestation exam, to be able to apply the got knowledge on practice and to deal with e-learn testing , be able to archive the results of works in the adequate folder ; 7) in some cases there are similar types of lesson activities like noting unknown items, preparation, sending and oral defense of practical works, individual tasks, presentations, essays, participation in game, dialogues e-learn testing, etc. ; besides, the above named activities the second year students deal with ЄВІ workbooks filling, the work with ЄВІ manual and concluding own vocabulary too, such additional activities for the master degree students are writing annotations, theses, stand reports, business letters, etc. ; 8) the material for the master’s degree course is placed on the National University’s of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine Moodle platform as an electronic studying course " Business English course for Geodesy and Land Planning " but course for the second year bachelors is divided into two blocks occupying electronic studying course " English course for Geodesy and Land Planning " and " English Course for Advanced Mechanical Engineers " . Perspectives of further investigation is the description of results of the further pedagogical observations to reveal gaps within the above named content curriculum and regarding the expediency of the unification of two blocks for second year students into one special block.