Abstract
The article studies the innovative elements of psychological support for the professional foreign language training of students at international relations faculties, offers and experimentally verifies the effectiveness of techniques and exercises for the intensification of the foreign language training, based on professional communicative situations in high-risk foreign language environment. Such elements include the use of stress-management techniques and exercises based on real-life professional situations, along with practicing foreign language skills. The appropriateness of use of the elements of psychological support for the professional foreign language training of would-be professionals in international relations was proved to be effective through the experiment. It was conducted with students of international relations faculties through the comparison of levels of performance of two groups of students: those whose professional foreign language training include elements of psychological support and those with traditional training. In order to assess the difference between two groups of students at the summative stage of the experiment, the Mann –Whitney U test was used. The use of psychological support for the professional foreign language training is significant in terms of improvement of would-be specialists' in international relations professional competence.
Highlights
In today’s world, most nations are active members of international and intergovernmental organizations
Students in the area of international relations should develop a high level of professional foreign language competence (FLC) during their foreign language training (FLT)
At the summative stage of the experiment, we looked at the dependence of the development of the students’ required level of FLC in the experimental group on their motivation for using elements of psychological support at the foreign language lessons
Summary
In today’s world, most nations are active members of international and intergovernmental organizations. It requires highly qualified specialists in the area of international relations, able to speak foreign languages at the professional level. One of the elements of foreign language training (FLT) at international relations faculties is the systematic and creative use of psychological support for foreign language lessons. It cannot be effective without using methods of personality-oriented approach and integrated training, as well as up-to-date informational and communicational technologies. Today’s labor market requires specialists in international relations to be creative, and possess versatile abilities, including high level of IQ, Universal Journal of Educational Research 8(6): 2344-2351, 2020 emotional intelligence, professional qualities and foreign language abilities, as well as highly developed communication skills that they would be able to use both in standard and high-risk (psychologically tense) environments.
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