Abstract
The content of the paper was determined by the problem of multimedia application in teaching English for Specific Purposes. It also deals with the improvement of students’ language skills as well as the development of socio-cultural and communicative competences in engineering students in the course of teaching English for Specific Purposes. The main principles of socio-cultural approach are distinguished. The most efficient multimedia aids are mentioned. The influence of multimedia aids at the English lessons on professional communicative skills of engineering students is analyzed. The teacher’s role in teaching English for Specific Purposes is determined. Preparatory work for demonstrating video films is observed. The paper outlines the classroom activities and evaluates the usefulness of multimedia tools in teaching English for Specific Purposes. The author describes the stages and ways of work with video materials and gives recommendations how to use them in the ESP classroom. It is considered that active implementation of modern technologies has great influence on the teaching and learning process.
Highlights
The urgent problem in our age of rapid information technology development is to accept the challenges and integrate the set of modern technical aids into language teaching and learning
The aim of this paper is to review some modern approaches to English teaching, to focus on video materials in teaching ESP and evaluate the influence of watching video on teaching/learning process
To sum up we can infer that integration of modern technical aids into teaching and learning ESP is necessary in the age of rapid IT development
Summary
The urgent problem in our age of rapid information technology development is to accept the challenges and integrate the set of modern technical aids into language teaching and learning. The field of English for Specific Purposes comprises efficient, intensive and scientifically grounded subject oriented on the development of professional communicative competence of engineering students. Access to different sources of information increases from day to day and knowledge of at least one foreign language has become necessary for every young professional. Students are getting more and more opportunities to communicate with their friends from other countries, take part in international conferences, contests, projects and students’ exchange programs. The students of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” can participate in plenty of international educational projects, such as TEMPUS, EURASIA, ERASMUS-MUNDUS, ERASMUS+, Fulbright Graduate Student Program, etc. Having graduated from the university in Ukraine, they can continue their studies at the best educational institutions of the world as NTUU “KPI” has already started 10 “Double Diploma” programs together with universities of Germany, France, South Korea, Brazil, Spain, Poland and others
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