Professionally-oriented Foreign Language Research Articles

О роли речевых образцов в обучении профессионально ориентированному иностранному языку

The introduction highlights a contradiction between a small number of training hours on non-major subject «Foreign language» and the requirements of leading approaches in education (competence-based, communicative) – the ability of non-linguistic students to use the foreign language in professional-oriented communication. The theoretical analysis is devoted to substantiating speech patterns teaching principle as the leading methodological path in professionally-oriented foreign language teaching. For empirical analysis the author extrapolates the intensive training methodology of G. A. Kitaygorodskaya for the stages of educational activities while forming speech skills based on subject area speech patterns. The description of the stages is accompanied by examples of specific educational tasks and types of language learning activities. The conclusion contains results indicating the value of speech patterns based language teaching for non-linguistic students which allows solving the problem of limited training hours and meet the requirement to minimize the volume of language while saving communicative functions of learners’ speech.

Substantiation of the complex of pedagogical conditions for the formation of a professionally-oriented foreign language skill of an IT-specialist in vocational education

Substantiation of the complex of pedagogical conditions for the formation of a professionally-oriented foreign language skill of an IT-specialist in vocational education

Предметно-языковое интегрированное обучение английскому языку студентов энергетических направлений подготовки

The aim of the research is to assess the effectiveness of the developed integrated course of a foreign language and physics aimed at enhancing communicative and general professional competencies among energy field students with a basic level of English proficiency. The article sequentially describes the outcomes of integrating the foreign language and physics course into the educational process for energy field students, including statistical data analysis of experimental teaching and provides examples of tasks. The research novelty lies in the development of a fundamentally new concept of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language at the university, wherein students not only learn terminology related to their future specialization and work with professionally-oriented texts but study technical disciplines in English based on the knowledge system and patterns of these disciplines. In other words, the content of the professionally-oriented foreign language course consists of modules from the physics and technical discipline block. It should be noted that the same topics and modules are simultaneously studied in Russian and during the physics course. The research establishes that with a proper synchronization of educational materials from different blocks of the curriculum, a high level of student competence in solving professional communicative tasks in a foreign language can be achieved.

PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING IN THE SYSTEM OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF CLIL APPROACH

The relevance of the research is due to the need to modernize foreign language (FL) training in the system of secondary vocational education (herein after referred to as SVE) as part of the implementation of the new Federal State Educational Standards in the context of strengthening the career guidance potential of FL learning. Accentuating the FL learning professional bias in college is aimed at developing students’ FL communicative competence in situations of professional communication and also for the sake of developing students’ professional self-determination. However, the development of the foundations of professionally-oriented FL training of SVE students has not been the subject of a separate study, which determines the urgency of the presented work. The purpose of the study is to work out the content and organizational foundations of professionally-oriented FL training, based on the CLIL approach. The study identifi es principles, requirements, didactic tools and materials that ensure the students’ mastering FL professional communication and the professional self-determination of students in the process of specialized FL training in the SVE system. It has been established that the electronic educational training manual on information technology and telecommunication systems, based on the CLIL approach, developed in the course of study has proven its effectiveness. The proposed principles, stages and content of teacher and student activities ensure the integrity of educational and personality developmental aspects of professionally-oriented FL training of SVE students, parallel and simultaneous mastery of all types of speech activity in the process of solving problem quasi-professional tasks in a specialized fi eld, and can be successfully used in a real educational process in a FL class at a SVE institution.

LEVEL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALTIES: DRAWBACKS OF TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN KAZAKHSTAN

The article discusses teaching professionally-oriented foreign language students of non-linguistic specialties. The article discusses the level of knowledge of a foreign language of graduates of non-linguistic specialties from Institutions of Higher Education and proposes some practical ways of its improvement.It reviews the level of foreign languages, the strengths and weaknesses, the language skills which graduates of non-linguistic specialties need improvement with. In order to find out that information questionnaire survey was conducted. The findings are discussed in this article. Possible reasons for ineffective teaching foreign language for students of non-linguistic specialties are regarded as following: the absence of systematic approach to curriculum formation, lack of coursebooks and teaching aids. Several ways to deal with those issues are proposed: developing systematic approach to curriculum composition, creation of coursebooks with content relevant to students’ professional field. Practical activities as projects, task-based learning, role-play, presentations are described.

О РОЛИ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬННО-ОРИЕНТИРОВАННОЙ ИНОЯЗЫЧНОЙ ПОДГОТОВКИ ИНЖЕНЕРОВ МОРСКОГО ТРАНСПОРТА В СВЕТЕ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ КОНВЕНЦИЙ

The marine engineer activity is associated with the need for communication in a multinational crew. The article
 deals with professionally-oriented foreign language training of marine engineers in the context of international
 conventions. The description of the developed guidebook "Oil Record Book" is given. The original professional
 situations offered in the guidebook for analysis show the conditions of the activity of mechanical engineers
 when they perform the main typical tasks of their professional activity and contribute to the improvement of
 foreign language speech competence. The basic unit of training is a typical professional task as a fragment of
 the subject context, the development of which includes not only the subject, but also the social component of
 the marine engineer future activity. The results of the work on the marine specialists training on the basis of
 the developed guidebook "Oil Record Book" as a means of forming competencies in the conditions of mastering
 typical tasks of professional work are analyzed. The features and dynamics of the development of professional
 foreign language communicative competencies are studied

РАЗВИТИЕ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНЫХ И ТВОРЧЕСКИХ СПОСОБНОСТЕЙ СТУДЕНТОВ ФАКУЛЬТЕТА МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ, ПОЛИТОЛОГИИ И ЗАРУБЕЖНОГО РЕГИОНОВЕДЕНИЯ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ТЕМЫ "ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОЕ ИСКУССТВО" НА ЗАНЯТИЯХ ПО НЕМЕЦКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

Foreign language in the process of teaching students of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Area Studies serves as a conduit for professional knowledge. The author attempts to demonstrate, using the example of teaching in German language the topic “Fine Arts”, that an interdisciplinary approach allows the methodology of retrospective information search to be applied in the analysis of a foreign language text. The foreign language text is considered in the socio-cultural context as an integral information space, which contributes to intercultural communication and dialogue between cultures. The process of teaching a foreign language is viewed not only as a transfer of linguistic knowledge, but also as a means of socializing a person who is ready for the conditions of life in a multinational and multicultural world. The adequacy of the learning process to the real communication becomes one of the methodological requirements for professionally-oriented foreign language learning. The author claims that even knowing German at a sufficiently high level (B2 CEFR), the effectiveness of communication in a foreign language can be reduced due to a lack of knowledge about extralinguistic reality, as language is nothing but a product of the historical development of society and culture. The method of searching for retrospective information in a foreign language educational text is one of the mechanisms to overcome such limitations.

Развитие профессиональной толерантности у студентов-медиков через профессионально-ориентированную обучение иностранным языкам

Global sociocultural transformations in the modern world are associated with expansive digitalisation and its impact on human life. Given the advantages of digital technology development, a number of significant problems arise, in particular, social differentiation, commercialisation of socionomic professions, information consumerism, emotional estrangement due to the virtualisation of communication, a shift in value orientations, replacement of traditional moral norms with their destructive simulacra. There is a clear need for intensification of educational activities in higher education focused on the humanisation of public consciousness, the promotion of social cohesion and the development of the moral backbone of an individual. Hence, it is necessary to refer to the theoretical and methodological foundations of tolerance development in students. The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of professional tolerance of a doctor and describe the strategy of its development in students in the process of foreign language training. Considering the issue of professional education of future doctors, the authors note that the vector of students' spiritual and moral development is determined by the values, attitudes, and norms of medical ethics and deontology. Herewith, the principle of tolerance is of the basic ones since professional medical practice is based on regular interpersonal interaction. The authors define the concept of a doctor's professional tolerance as the willingness to provide patients with high-quality medical care regardless of the heterogeneity of socio-cultural factors and subjective personal aspects. This concept assumes the doctor's tact, empathy, psychological flexibility and poise. The proposed strategy for the development of professional medical tolerance in students via professionally-oriented foreign language training involves the holistic formation of its cognitive, affective and conative components through the educational content and the parity in subject-subject interaction. In the development of the cognitive component, considerable importance is ascribed to supplementing the basic educational materials by authentic content of social and professional orientation. The connecting link of the development of cognitive and affective components is the identification and levelling of stereotypes and prejudices regarding socially significant diseases. The basis for the development of the affective component is pedagogical tolerance, a favourable educational environment, interactive activities at classes, and the facilitation of students' reflection. The development of the conative component of tolerance is directly tied to the development of professional communicative competence of future doctors: the study and development of various speech cliches in the format of interaction with patients; revision of politeness formulas; practicing non-verbal communication means in playing out quasi-professional situations; mastering the speech norms “plain language” and “people-first language”.

Theoreticaljustification ofthe model ofteaching professionally-oriented foreignlanguage in college

Theoreticaljustification ofthe model ofteaching professionally-oriented foreignlanguage in college

Стратегия обучения иноязычной диалогической коммуникации студентов-нефилологов

The article deals with the phenomenon of dialogical speech activity in foreign language. Much attention is given to the notion of dialogic communication. A number of definitions of the dialogue are given. The article features communicative interaction. The key functions of dialogical speech communication are described. The article presents the main type of dialogue among which the authors highlight the ones of great importance for students to master professionally-oriented foreign language communication. Fundamental characteristics of dialogic discourse are analyzed. The article provides the definition to the concept of “ability”; groups of abilities necessary to carry out oral communication are outlined, the authors examine their most significant properties. The questions of division of abilities of foreign language dialogical speech activity development and theoretical justification of their typology are considered. The tree-phase structure of speech actions is revealed the elemental composition of the exercise is determined. The existing typologies of communicative tasks in domestic and foreign linguodidactics are analyzed, each type is characterized. The article provides a system of exercises aimed at developing communicative skils and abilities in the process of learning a foreign language.

Mnemonics in Eaching Foreign Languages for Professional Purposes to Students of Economics

Problem and purpose. The paper substantiates the rationale to use empirically approved mnemonic techniques in developing the foreign language communicative competence in the professional field in students of the industry-related non-philological higher educational institution. Representation is given of the experiment conducted at the Siberian Transport University that was aimed at studying the impact of mnemonics application on embracing and perceiving specialized professional information in a foreign language as well as anticipating ways to improve such teaching techniques by means of digital educational technologies. The purpose of the study is to determine efficiency of mnemonics used by both students and teachers in the build-up of professionally-oriented foreign language proficiency as well as to identify the most effective relevant technologies and provide argumentation in favor of their implementing in practice. Methodology. The research is based on analysis and systematization of related theoretical and applied psychological-pedagogical and methodological materials, study of student research works, student questionnaire-based surveys and generalization of benchmarked teaching practices in higher education. The conclusion is made on the use of mind mapping as a productive method to acquire profession-related information in the development of algorithms for learning both foreign languages and profession-related courses.

Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching of Master’s Degree Students

The issue of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching is relevant for foreign language teachers and for future professionals whose work lies in the field of intercultural communication. Foreign language skills become one of the essential requirements for technical professionals. One can determine the efficiency of the educational process by the educational tools and materials. An urgent task is to develop the standards for foreign language teaching of master’s degree students of engineering specialties. There are typical situations that arise in professional communication in the process of creating a teaching program. Professionals’ requirements regarding speech are taken into account. The method of projects in teaching allows master’s degree students to show independence in planning, organizing, controlling their activities, studying practical problems of modern age by means of a foreign language in the real information space. Designing the teaching program based on new educational standards imposes new requirements on assessing relevant competencies in master’s degree students. Individual work as an integral element of the educational process contributes to the improvement of professional qualifications.

Soft Skills formation in professional-oriented foreign language education at higher education institutions

The article aims to analyze the constituent characteristics of soft skills and evaluate students' existing skills and their readiness to receive professionally-oriented foreign language training. General scientific methods of cognition are used for the study, including analysis of foreign investigations, periodicals, and surveys conducted by experts and scientists. During the study, the requirements of employers to the personnel for the qualities of soft skills in students are determined. The results show that in foreign language teaching, insufficient attention is paid to the education of these qualities. The study results are of great importance for the higher education teachers forming methodological developments in fostering these soft skills among students.

Implementation of the Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language Competence in Terms of Integrative Approach for Training Future Engineers

The article deals with the actual issues of forming professionally-oriented foreign language competence concerning the future engineers’ training. The article testifies the necessity of rendering future engineers with professionally-oriented foreign language training based on new engineering and technological approaches. The challenges of interdisciplinary studies of any area of economy cause enhanced intensive international collaboration and intercultural cooperation. It implies the improvement of professionally-oriented foreign language competence demand for the next generation of engineers and middle-line staffsince it is essential for interdisciplinary and international team work training. Considering the experimental results, it has been confirmed that professional foreign language competence is effectively developed within “Intensive integrative course of foreign language”, content and structure of which are based on an integrative approach and a set of suggested organisational principles. The article summarises the results of the direct observation and interviews.

Современные подходы при профессионально-ориентированном обучении иностранному языку

The purpose of the research is to study the problem of using modern information technologies in professionally-oriented foreign language teaching. The article considers the essence of professionally-oriented teaching in the framework of personality-oriented approach; particular attention is paid to interdisciplinary interdependence of foreign language and personalities of the students. Scientific novelty involves the use of software systems based on artificial intelligence, in particular, the basic software platform "Mondly" as a tool for increasing the lexical competence of non-linguistic students. The result revealed the essence of professionally-oriented teaching, means of enhancing professional competence, features and capabilities of software platform "Mondly" as a tool for increasing the lexical competence.

Advantages of cooperative methods in teaching professionally-oriented foreign languages to students of technical universities

The major cause of the given study is the urgent necessity to develop effective information and communication technologies to employ in teaching professionally-oriented foreign language to students of technical universities. The digital transformation in teaching practices makes both educators and theorists search for new teaching methods and technologies. Collaborative learning or leaning in cooperation is an advanced educational approach that aims to facilitate students learning. This study is focused on describing theoretical foundations, analyzing practical application, and examining advantages of collaborative learning technologies in comparison with traditional ones. The paper defines the concept, main principles, and implementation stages of this method, as well as advantages and potential of collaborative learning. We have revealed that collaborative learning greatly contributes to an increase of the language proficiency level and to the development of professional communicative competence in foreign languages. The study was carried out using a wide array of theoretical methods, including investigation, description, review and analysis of literature in the field of teaching foreign languages to students of technical universities. The findings of our study might be useful for both education theorists and practitioners who are interested in cooperative methods and their usage as classroom activities. To further our research, we intend to analyze the use of collaborative learning technology, expand its possibilities and enhance the efficiency of its application in teaching foreign languages at technical universities.

Psychological contact establishing methods during professionally-oriented foreign language teaching (on the example of English language)

Psychological contact establishing methods during professionally-oriented foreign language teaching (on the example of English language)

Role Playing as a Type of Speech Exercise in Creative Teaching of Spoken Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language Communication in Agrarian Higher Education Institution

Role Playing as a Type of Speech Exercise in Creative Teaching of Spoken Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language Communication in Agrarian Higher Education Institution

Развитие языковой коммуникативной компетентности студентов транспортного университета на занятиях по английскому языку с помощью использования профессионально ориентированных текстов

In accordance with the current foreign language program for non-linguistic universities, training of future specialists in a foreign language should be professionally oriented. Special emphasis is placed on implementation of the transition from learning a foreign language as an academic discipline to its practical use for professional purposes, since this is the main task of the program. Modern graduates should have professional and communicative competence, which is a necessary quality for subsequent effective professional activity, which will require them to speak a foreign language within the framework of professional communication. This may include reading special original texts, participating in discussions, presentations, and situations of scientific and professional communication in a foreign language. Professionally-oriented foreign language teaching means education, the essence of which is its integration with the core disciplines and can be considered as a means of improving professional competence and personal and professional development of students. Professionally-oriented teaching of a foreign language implies, first of all, the professional orientation of the content of educational materials, as well as activities containing techniques for the formation of professional phenomena. Future engineers and scientists can acquire extensive modern knowledge in English classes in order to get acquainted with the results of the latest research and achievements in the field of science and technology. Reading in this case becomes the main way of obtaining such information. Therefore, we can say that reading in transport universities is both a tool and a goal of teaching a foreign language. In this paper, we tried to consider the need to develop reading skills of specialized literature for students of transport universities and to determine the role of reading in the process of teaching/learning English. We look upon professionally-oriented foreign language teaching as part of teaching students of railway specialties of the Ural State University of Railway Transport to read special authentic texts. The main criteria for the selection of authentic texts for professionally oriented reading, methodological approaches to organization, presentation of the text material and the most effective methods of working with such texts are considered. Practical examples of tasks are presented when working on a text, with the use of a communicative approach in teaching as a priority. The statement about the importance of teaching reading texts in the specialty, facilitating to develop the professional and communicative competence of students, is grounded.

Criteria for the Selection of Speech Material for Teaching English for Specific Purposes to Public Administrators

Currently, the priority of postgraduate education is the preparation of specialists with a sufficient level of knowledge of a foreign language for the successful exchange of both scientific and technical achievements through inter-lingual channels. Foreign language competence is a prerequisite for professional development of a specialist, and knowledge of a professionally oriented foreign language as a means of intercultural communication will allow a prospective specialist to build the basis of their personal and social life with practical skills and abilities and implement them in professional activities. This allows us to highlight the importance and necessity of a foreign language competence development in the sphere of public administration. Competence development process should be based on authentic materials and account for situations of real-life professional interaction of the specialists that leads to the relevance of the study, which aims to define the criteria of selection of the speech material for teaching English for specific purposes. This aim led to the use of theoretical research methods (studying philosophical, linguistic, psychological, didactic and methodological papers to understand the problem, developing theoretical foundations and conceptual approaches to the development of program material) and empirical ones (scientific observation of teaching a professionally oriented foreign language to public administrators). The article also outlines the importance of the development of professionally-oriented foreign language competence for the public administrators, highlights the main requirements for the candidates for public service positions in the European space, and discovers educational processes in the framework of postgraduate education in Ukraine. The authors define the unit of selection of teaching material and describe the procedure of its selection as well as the conditions of the development of foreign language competence for professional purposes.