Interactive Methods of the Formation of English-language Communicative Competence for Future International Economists

Lyubov Struhanets,Larysa Verhun,Olha Luzhetska,Anatolii Vykhrushch,Iryna Zalipska

doi:10.5430/ijhe.v10n3p25

Abstract

The paper elaborates the peculiarities of prospective international economists` competence formation. The research was aimed at the analysis of the formation of students` professional qualities within the context of globalization challenges. This study was carried out in 2018-2020. The research site is the West Ukrainian National University. The authors stressed on the need to select creative assignments for oral and written exercises to enhance students to apply the acquired knowledge and stimulate their mental activity via reviewing, projects preparation, text editing, and creative assignments.The authors specified the system of basic concepts. Based on the above, the authors substantiated the need to form professional communication skills, learn the professional language peculiarities, develop the language culture, creative thinking, and successful functioning of individuals in a multicultural environment. Additionally, the research identified a number of unsolved issues in teaching students. These are the need for a broad discussion on the benefits and disadvantages of distance learning, the rational use of ICT, specialized sets of trainings, methodological support system update, language didactics development, and organization of the educational process during the pandemic.

Highlights

The dawn of the 21st century has been marked by the search for new educational paradigms of highly qualified specialists training
The purpose of this research was to check the effectiveness of the interactive methods of the English language communicative competence formation for prospective international economists
Students were divided into two groups, i.e., the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG)

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The dawn of the 21st century has been marked by the search for new educational paradigms of highly qualified specialists training. An individual needs to be fundamentally educated and have the ability to flexibly modify the content of professional activities related to ICT development and new labor market requirements. Learning foreign languages is a compulsory part of tertiary education. Khvalyboha (2020) in her dissertation research supervised by A. Vykhrushch analyzed the way the definition of the term “education” presented in publications of American academia and English explanatory dictionaries, as well as compared them with the definitions formulated by the Ukrainian researchers. Leading American researchers identified primarily the following attributes of education: 1. Action or set of actions aimed at acquiring knowledge Leading American researchers identified primarily the following attributes of education: 1. Action or set of actions aimed at acquiring knowledge

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