Multimedia Professional Content Foreign Language Competency Formation in a Digital Educational System Exemplified by Stepik Framework

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of the Aviation English language. The stated aims are given in the frame of the Content Language Integrated learning exemplified by Stepik framework. The authors draw attention to the fact that the main role of future aviation specialists’ training is formed by the multimedia professional content foreign language competency formation. The authors considered the issue of interdisciplinary cooperation among the teachers of special disciplines and foreign language teachers in the context of the competency stated above as a model of Content and language multimedia collaboration. This type of collaboration is based on the use of multimedia technologies. Formation of the stated competency is based on the assertion of the professionally-oriented dialogic speech. That is dialog-discussions, shown in its forms of communication – dialog-discussion, dialog-proof, and dialog refutation. These skills are being implemented by the developed methodology. These are given via teaching a dialogic speech with multimedia implementation on the basis of Stepik framework. The results of the survey, obtained in the preparatory phase of the pedagogical experiment, are given. The analysis of the survey results identified further vectors of the multimedia professional content foreign language competency formation: dialogic speech activity, professional topics discussions, and use of multimedia technologies. To achieve this goal, a typology of exercises has been developed aimed at the formation of dialogue-discussion skills from simple skills to complex truly communicative skills of professionally-oriented dialogic speech activity in the aviation sector, in the competence aspect and based on CLIL elements.