The article discusses the issue of organizing continuous foreign language teaching of future engineers in higher education. The aim of the research is to consider the possibility of applying a non-linear approach to the organization of continuous foreign language learning for engineering students in higher education in terms of systemic, organizational, temporal and other aspects of continuous learning in relation to the Foreign Language discipline. The materials for the study were educational standards of higher education for engineering specialties, materials of engineering forums on the problem of engineering education modernization, regulatory and legal documents of the Advanced Engineering Schools project. The focus of attention is on the current requirements to the set of competencies of a future engineer concerning the development of supra-professional (flexible) skills, such as leadership and entrepreneurial skills; the ability to work in a team, present the results of work, interact in a team, etc.; research skills; skills and abilities required to perform tasks within the framework of interaction between universities and their industrial partners. The study formulates and reveals the principles of continuous foreign language teaching process of future engineers in a higher education institution – systemic, organizational, temporal, age-specific, content-specific, level-specific, technological, and socio-psychological. The principle of technological continuity consists in the development of a system of special tasks based on authentic digital corporate resources, a gradual increase in the number of authentic digital corporate resources used in the learning process, and a complication of tasks and types of learning activities developed on their basis. The principle of socio-psychological continuity of the foreign language learning process is important for the organization of the learning process, as it reflects the specificity of foreign language learning for future engineers and contributes to the successful development of supra-professional skills. The key role in the formulation of this principle is played by taking into account individual-psychological features of engineering students, such as aspiration for leadership, rational understanding of the surrounding reality, etc. These students are characterized by a higher level of general tension and a dominant level of non-verbal intelligence development compared to students of the humanities. Thus, the results of the study allow us to conclude that these principles should be taken into account when designing a system of special tasks, developed on the basis of authentic digital corporate resource s and the capabilities of digital technologies, and when developing an e-learning course in foreign language for future engineers at the bachelor’s and master’s levels in higher education.
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