NON-LINGUISTIC STUDENTS LEARNING AND STRATEGIC COMPETENCE IN PROFESSIONAL ORAL ENGLISH COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article defines the peculiarities of developing learning and strategic competence in professional oral English communication of non-linguistic students. In particular, learning strategies necessary for the development of students’ professional oral communication skills in English (strategies for mastering a foreign language and strategies for organizing learning) have been specified. At the current stage, there is no unified classification of communicative strategies, which is due to the peculiarity of different types of discourses and the variety of strategies depending on the speakers’ communicative intentions. Based on the analysis of modern researches, the conclusion was made about the expediency of distinguishing the following communicative strategies: informative, evaluative-influential, emotional-influential, regulatory-motivational and conventional, which, in turn, contain a number of strategies and corresponding tactics. To form non-linguistic majors’ professional oral communication skills in English, it is necessary to outline typical situations, specify the most relevant communicative strategies and tactics by analyzing professional discourse, studying the results of surveys conducted among specialists working in the relevant field. The formation of learning and strategic competence should involve systematic and purposeful mastering of learning and communicative strategies, be carried out explicitly, implicitly and in an integrated way depending on the characteristics of the strategies, situation, learning objectives, students’ individual learning styles, level of their English communicative competence, motivation for learning English, learning and communication experience.