Patterning method as a way of method compression implementing in professionally oriented foreign language training of students at non-linguistic universities

Abstract

Against the background of the serious geopolitical changes in the country and in the world, vocational education, especially the aspects related to a foreign language training of students, is undergoing a significant transformation. The very clearly manifested tendency to reduce the classroom-based activities of communication with students remains the prevailing factor, which forces methodologists to focus their attention on finding some new effective tools to compensate for the number of hours that are obviously insufficient for the development of communication skills in a foreign language. The authors believe that the indicated problem can be solved in the widespread use of the method compression by involving the patterning method in the study process. The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential of the patterning method as a means of method compression implementing in the professionally oriented foreign language training of students at non-linguistic universities. The authors are convinced that despite the widespread use of the patterning method in the practice of teaching foreign languages, it has not received worthy theoretical consideration in the domestic linguistic and didactic field, especially within the framework of university foreign language education, which predetermined the relevance of the study. In the article, the authors consider in detail the patterning method and its use technology in a professionally oriented environment at non-linguistic universities when implementing a foreign language training of students. The results of a pedagogical experiment on the introduction of the method under study into the process of education are also presented. The article suggests a possible block of the patterns when studying the topic «My University». In the conclusion part, the authors identify the components of the patterning method that affect the effectiveness of mastering course content and contribute to the level increase of a foreign language communicative competence among students at non-linguistic universities.