PECULIARITIES OF FORMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE ENERGY ENGINEERS BY MEANS OF APPLYING EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

Abstract

The paper substantiates the expediency of applying educational projects as a means of forming future energy engineers’ foreign language competence based on the opportunities they provide to create an individual trajectory for learning a foreign language and to improve communication skills. The author’s own definitions of the concept of «project learning technologies», «project work» and «educational project» have been formulated. The efficiency of creating profession-oriented projects in the course of educational process has been experimentally verified by the example of forming foreign language competence of the students majoring in 141 «Electric Power, Electrical Engineering and Electro-mechanics» with the use of English site materials. According the results obtained in the investigation, it has been determined that the work on an educational project makes students exhibit their intellectual skills, enhance their intrinsic motivation to mastering new knowledge, improve their skills of self-organization and self-development, provide activation and automation of their receptive and productive communication skills. A complex of interrelated and complementary features, which characterize the process of forming future energy engineers’ foreign language communication skills by means of educational projects has been determined, namely: creation of an individual trajectory for learning a foreign language; revealing of the inner potential of every higher education student regardless of their foreign language competence level; autonomy in the process of carrying out educational work, encouragement to self-education and self-development; computerization of foreign language training, expanding personal and professional horizons; improvement of speaking activity skills; formation of a complex of competences (information, communication, professional, project and investigation ones) that are necessary for successful self-realization under the conditions of intellectual and innovative society development.