SOME ASPECTS OF DIAGNOSTIC POCEDURES DEVELOPMENT TO ESTIMATE THE LEVEL OF ABILITY OF FUTURE BACHELORS OF HUMANITIES TO PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED COMMUNICATION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

In the context of a continuously changing educational environment the problem of development of its content and sets of criteria for diagnostic procedures in the framework of a students’ performance assessment system shall never lose its relevance. In particular, an assessment system to determine the level of proficiency in professionally oriented foreign language communication in future bachelors in humanities has been considered within the modern pedagogic methodology that suggests synergy of various scientific knowledge. The aim of the article is to consider and describe some aspects of assessment procedures development as an effective means to estimate the level of future bachelors’ capacity for professionally oriented communication in a foreign language through perception and production of discourses which are common for various professional communities. Methodology and research methods. The review of the information resources leads us to the conclusion that presentation strategies in the media (TV, periodicals, the Internet, etc.) and within information exchanges between representatives of professional communities tend to the English language model of verbal interaction that is linear, has a pronounced structure and strict logics as well as a characteristic of a complete locution. The latest achievements in the applied linguistics make it possible to state that communication is based on the ability of locutors to interpret and produce discourses. Such approach to understanding of the discursive nature of communication resulted into a universal system of diagnostic procedures to provide in the traditional five-point rating scale assessment a certain level of validity and acceptability when formation of discursive foreign language competence as a descriptor of the level of proficiency of future bachelors in professionally oriented communication in a foreign language is concerned. Results and scientific novelty. Based on synergy of data from different sciences the algorithm of the diagnostic and assessment procedures in question makes it possible to obtain valid figures. The algorithm has been tested in the course of experimental work and proved its efficiency. Practical significance. The set of criteria for diagnostic procedures is found to have a high flexibility and assumed to integrate additional assessment means.