Formation and development of the language training methodology for foreign students at classical universities. Part 2. Teaching students of language specialties

Abstract

The article continues the series of scientific and methodological studies on the formation and development of the language training methodology for foreign students at classical universities. In the first part of the research, published last year, the authors analyzed the development of language training conceptual foundations for foreign students of different specialties, as well as history, principles, and features of language education of foreign students of non-philological specialties by the example of the Language Training Department 1 of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. For this group of students, a foreign language is primarily a means of learning and mastering their future specialty. For foreign students of philological specialties, a language is not only a means but also a study goal that involves, besides language proficiency, knowledge of its phonetic, grammatical and lexical structure, mastering various stylistic means, knowledge of modern linguistic concepts, and familiarity with foreign language fiction. The article presents an analysis of the development of scientific and methodological principles for training foreign philological students and illustrates the main directions of their practical implementation by the Language Training Department 1 of the Institute of International Education for Study and Research of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. There was applied a systematic analysis of scientific achievements regarding the teaching of future philologists and its methodological implementation. The authors studied the directions of scientific research and the aspects of educational and methodological activities developed for the implementation of the professionally oriented teaching within non-native sociocultural and educational environments. The result of the systemic analysis is an overview of dissertations in philology, methodological research dedicated to future philologists, specialists in language, literature, and translation as well as teaching aids and textbooks for the above-mentioned group. The authors based their research on the concept of foreign students’ language education and the structure of the modern educational paradigm presented in the previous article of the series. The article examines the influence of the competence approach on the creation of curricula and syllabi for foreign philological students of the first and second levels of higher education and on the way of developing all components of students’ communicative competence.