Learning the “what?” “how?” and “why?”: A necessary introduction to becoming a reflective practitioner of professional communication

This article is devoted to the features and benefits of a professionally-oriented approach to teaching a foreign language in non-linguistic high schools on the example of engineering education. According to the latest standards of higher education (FSES 3++), students must have sufficient knowledge of a foreign language for business communication in oral and written forms. However, teachers of high schools face a number of difficulties in the formation of a foreign language communicative competence offuture engineers, namely: a constant decrease of a number offoreign language practical classes in a curriculum of a high school and a weak motivation of students. In our opinion, a professionally-oriented approach to teaching helps to solve these problems and make the process of learning a foreign language more intensive, focused and effective. That is, now, the development of strategies, methodological models and tools for teaching English, with a focus on professional communication, is an actual task for an English teacher at the University. This article presents some methods and techniques that stimulate students of engineering faculty to professionally oriented communication in English. Much attention is paid to both active teaching methods used during practical English classes, and individual work, which allows students to get more useful information and skills within the practical classes given, and also allows students to develop the need for individual knowledge acquisition and comprehension, thereby providing the increased interest of communication in a foreign language and increasing motivation to learn a foreign language.

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SPECIFICS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION TO STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN “LEGAL SUPPORT OF NATIONAL SECURITY”

Национальная безопасность России: актуальные аспекты: сборник избранных статей Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Сентябрь 2020) ◽

10.37539/nb187.2020.21.50.005 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Анна Владимировна Подстрахова

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Professional Communication ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Skills Development ◽

Enhance Efficiency ◽

Teaching Learning

В статье рассматриваются вопросы формирования у студентов-юристов универсальных компетенций в процессе обучения профессионально-ориентированному иностранному языку. Предлагаются пути оптимизации процесса обучения иностранному языку на примере курса «Иностранный язык в профессиональной сфере» в рамках специальности «Правовое обеспечение национальной безопасности». The paper focuses on the problem of students` universal skills development while teaching foreign languages for professional communication. Ways to enhance efficiency of teaching/learning are proposed and tested among the students specializing in “Legal Support of National Security”.

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