The Analysis of Foreign Language Programs for the Undergraduates - Future Social Workers

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of analysis and comparison of structural and semantic content of foreign language programs to train students of non-philological specialties. The aim of the article is to determine similar and disimilar features of the contexual and structural filling of the foreign language programmes for the seniour students-future social workers within concrete higher educational establishment – National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine during 2020/2021 academic year. The result of investigation lays in two conclusions. The first conclusion is that abobenamed educational establishment pays much attention on the foreign language studying through proposing enough studying hours to develop not only direct skills of undergraduates as future entrants to the magistery through the explanation of the method to fill the EVI workbooks up, but also to the general students’ philological and creative formation . In parallel it is fixation of attention on certain twelve thematic blocks and grammatical phenomena being related with EVI workbooks as well as repetition, detection and elimination of individual gaps in entering a foreign language environment to be required for the formation of a versatile personality, development of soft skills of every future social worker. The second conclusion is that the programs to train upgraduates- future social workers in different bachelor’s training semesters have more common features than distinctive ones. The common features of the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth semesters of professional social worker’s purpose foreign language study are related to ten categories: common assessment policy, common scale of student assessment, total number of modules for each semester, academic loading, previous overall goal, previous general tasks to study professional social worker’s purpose foreign language within third or fourth year of studying, relevant subject of discipline and basic competencies, general requirements for the results of certification classes at the end of each module or semester with further clarification of different content as well as the requirement to conclude and present a self-developed thematic presentation or real life story "Once upon a time" and adequate dialogue to discuss current spcial worker’s problem by every student almost at every semester. The distinctive features of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth semesters of studying a social worker’s professional purpose foreign language relate only to three features: modular topics, content and different number of hours to study certain topics. The research perspective is a description of the results of further pedagogical observations in the context of comparative characteristics of foreign language curricula to train undergraduates of other specialties within other higher educational establishments.