Video selection for development of foreign language competence based on implicit specializing of non-linguistic students

Abstract

The article focuses on developing communicative foreign language competence in monologue production of non-linguistic students at the primary stage of higher education with video. The purpose of the research is to specify video selection criteria for integrated development of socio-cultural and professionally oriented communicative foreign language competence on the basis of audiovisual implicit specializing. The implementation of audiovisual implicit specializing requires: 1) availability of socio-cultural information about culture and language behaviour in different countries of the world with the primary focus on the country and the people of the target language; 2) presence of situational models of communication incorporating a number of lexical units of economic and tourist register in non-professional communication spheres in the video sequence;3) authenticity of academic and non-academic videos; 4) presentation of oral speech production and interaction patterns containing lengthy monologue utterances;5) audio and video correlation in the video sequence as well as correspondence with the first year students’ foreign language proficiency level and their thesaurus. To illustrate the listed criteria the article provides some scripts of video sequences to be used to develop socio-cultural and professionally oriented communicative foreign language competence of non-linguistic students at the primary stage of higher education