SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS DURING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING COURSE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya Gazizulina ◽  
Adelina Astafeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Training Course

scholarly journals Management Students’ "Soft Skills" in Foreign Language Training at Technical University

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00144
Author(s):  
Irina Zueva
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Management Students

The article discusses the need for the bachelor students’ soft skills development in technical universities. The main objective of our research is the identification of the conceptual model "soft skills" opportunities in technical students training. Moreover, the demand of these skills in modern labor market is accented. The term "soft skills" is one of new tracks of the dynamically changing world. The article includes the content - analysis of the word «soft skills» providing the integrity of the term perception and its contents, applicability level in communication, and also some ways of the students' soft skills development in their foreign language practical training.

scholarly journals A Development of Foreign Language Training Course for Local Youth Guides of Dankwian Community in Thailand

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Pitchayapa Chavangklang ◽  
Thanaset Chavangklang
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Industrial Sectors

English language has become increasingly more important as it is used as an international language to communicate with people from other countries, especially in the tourism, which is one of Thailand’s most growing industrial sectors today. Although English is taught at all educational levels in Thailand for general purposes, there is still need for specific use of English in some areas such as local tourism places. This leads to the need for improving the English language ability of people in such areas, particularly young people, who are most likely to have influential effects not only on themselves but also their families and community as a whole. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a foreign language training course for Local Youth Guide at Dankwian Community - a famous pottery-making village in Thailand. The course was developed in four stages: 1) Studying background information; 2) Developing the training course of Foreign Language for Local Youth Guide; 3) Trying-out the course; and 4) Evaluating the course. The training course was implemented with a group of 60 junior high school students. The study was designed for one group pretest-posttest, using pre-post tests and a satisfaction questionnaire as study tools. The study revealed the following results. 1) The community members needed a foreign language training course which has both lecturing and workshops. 2) The course consisted of one ice-breaking module and five language modules. 3) While attending the course, participants were enthusiastic, asking questions, and actively contributing to the discussions. 4) After the course, participants significantly improved their language ability at the.05 level. The participants’ satisfaction on the training course was at the ‘very high’ level. They indicated that the course emphasized on the real life applications. These results revealed the usefulness of a short training course for local youth guides in Thailand. It can be applied to other local areas in Thailand that have foreign tourists. A similar training course can be developed by making some modifications to this course to fit their local contents.

scholarly journals Modern technologies in foreign language training at a technical higher education institution

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-221
Author(s):  
Irina V. Zuyeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Russian Education ◽  
Education Transformation ◽  
Modern Technologies

The article discusses modern technologies in foreign language training for the bachelors of technical university which help to develop professional skills. Nowadays there is a need of education transformation taking into account changes of the digital world in favour of the soft skills development which provide personnel leadership in a digital era. The value of new technologies is that they allow to be guided better in a rapidly changing world, in various directions and disciplines and to understand flows of modern information. Educational cases and projects are very important in Russian education now. At the same time, assimilation of knowledge and abilities development act as a result of vigorous independent students’ activity on conflicts solving therefore there is a creative mastering professional knowledge, skills, abilities and critical thinking development.

scholarly journals Foreign Language Training Transformation for Sustainable Development: Trends and Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 09023
Author(s):  
Dinara Ivanova ◽  
Anna Polenova ◽  
Anna Motozhanets
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Training

The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways and identify the main trends of language learning transformation in universities for sustainable development in order to encourage students’ soft skills and competences for real commitment and interaction. Education is considered as a means through which individuals can improve their quality of life. If we redesign institutional educational programs on language learning based on students’ needs and expected outcomes, then both the quality of language education and the quality of life will improve dramatically. It also tries to consider the directions to implement sustainability in foreign language teaching through curriculum, interdisciplinary approach and innovation.

IN REFERENCE TO SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE COURSE OF CROSS-CULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Ивановна Васючкова ◽  
Татьяна Васильевна Коваленок
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Law Schools

В статье анализируется образовательный контент предмета “иностранный язык” с точки зрения потенциала для развития гибких навыков. Обсуждаются возможности экстраполяции полученных навыков на реальные ситуации делового общения юриста. The article deals with the content of foreign language teaching at law schools. The nature of soft skills development in the course of cross-cultural business communication is discussed. The authors stress the possibility of extrapolating such skills on real life professional situations.

scholarly journals Productive Method as the Basis for Soft Skills Development in Engineering Foreign Language Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Olesya Dmitrievna Medvedeva ◽  
Anna Vladimirovna Rubtsova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Productive Method

The modern world requires engineering specialists with excellent hard skills as well as soft skills that contribute to better communication, creativity, and self-realisation of a person. The authors discovered that modern educational standards are starting to focus on soft skills development, proposing requirements for educational programs that contain competencies covering soft skills. To fulfil such needs, there is the productive method of foreign language teaching that implies interactive technologies and masters foreign language communicative competence and soft skills at once. Therefore, the study aimed at developing a technology of soft skills development in engineering foreign language education using the productive method and checking its effectiveness. The authors designed a questionnaire and investigated engineering students’ opinions on a need to develop soft skills, which revealed high relevance of the topic, and the possibility of their development while studying a foreign language, which proved the productive method’s prospects. Based on findings received and literature analysed, we implemented case studies, problem-based learning, and essay writing in the technology and designed assessment criteria. Testing of the technology was performed by a pedagogical experiment, where qualitative and quantitative methods were applied. To critically analyse the results, we used Cronbach’s alpha, which revealed good reliability of the questionnaire, and t-test showed high efficiency of the technology that improved students’ soft skills.

scholarly journals Online learning facilitation in border guards’ foreign language training

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-345
Author(s):  
Andrii Balendr ◽  
Oksana Komarnytska ◽  
Oleksandra Islamova ◽  
Olha Khamaziuk ◽  
Petro Lusan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Learning Facilitation ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
Online Facilitation

The study aims to analyze the effectiveness of teaching English online to cadets of the border guard educational institutions using learning facilitation techniques in order to enhance the effectiveness of foreign language training of future border guards within the system of distance learning. The research has revealed the peculiarities of organization of online facilitation skills development for the border guard trainers in European Union border guard agencies under the auspices of European Border Guard Agency. The modern online learning facilitation forms, methods and tools used for teaching future border guards English language have been presented. The effectiveness of the acquired by border guard trainers' facilitative skills was tested during an Intensive Online English Language Course for Border Guards at the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Analysis of the results of employing facilitative methods and techniques during the course provide their effectiveness. According to the results, the average score of the participants increased from 3.98 to 4.23. The obtained results testify to the efficiency of the facilitation skills development of the trainers of the Border Guard agencies.

scholarly journals Menshenina S.G. Interdisciplinarity as a Means for Students’ Soft Skills Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Labzina ◽  
S. G. Menshenina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction

Introduction. The development of the business sphere, scientific and technological progress set the pace of engineering education modernization and stimulate the search for the optimal and close to real working conditions ways of improving and enhancing professional competences and soft skills of university graduates. Interdisciplinarity has become a professional fields trend comprising enormous potential to foster the research, implement its results into practice and facilitate students’ soft skills development.Materials and Methods. The study is based on the analysis and comparison of domestic and foreign experience on the problem of the research; pedagogical observation of the educational process; study and generalization of pedagogical experience; experimental work.Results. The interdisciplinary project “Hardware and software complex of augmented reality as a means of learning a foreign language” was carried out with students of different specialties on the bases of Samara State Technical University. The rationale for this project choice is related to the relevance of the information technologies use in educational process and the need to learn a foreign language for professional purposes. These conditions make us think of creating the innovative methodological support of educational process. Considering the development of students’ soft skills, special attention was paid to group dynamics, role functions, leadership, as well as environmental and context factors. Interdisciplinary interaction terms were identified: stable working relationships which help develop communication literacy skills; finding the effective conflict solution that stimulates thinking skills; role and time distribution for actualizing management and self-management skills; a common goal achieving which is conditioned by the combination of the main soft skills groups of effective thinking skills, communication skills, management and self-management skills.Discussion and Conclusion. Practical work within the interdisciplinary project proved the necessity of students’ soft skills development for achieving success in professional sphere. The most efficient way to better this process is to realize the interdisciplinary interaction due to its potential, represented by its resources, ideas and approaches from different fields, and opportunities for mastering the skills in question.

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