scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Approach to Modeling in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in the Ukrainian Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Fedorenko ◽  
Svitlana Kolomiiets ◽  
Yana Tikan ◽  
Oleksiy Tsepkalo
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction

The article highlights exploiting modeling in the interdisciplinary educational process at a modern technical university in Ukraine. The focus of the study is to consider the interdisciplinary approach to modeling in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to develop technical students' strategic competence as the cognitive ability to intervene in solving various problems. The methodology involves the complex of complementary methods: analysis of psychological and pedagogical sources on the issue under study; the observation of the educational process, and monographic practice (interpreting the results obtained in a coherent, logical perspective); generalization and systematization of the collaboration between the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Faculty of Linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (after this officially abbreviated name – Igor Sikorsky KPI) on implementing the model of interdisciplinary interaction to develop students' strategic competence through producing secondary sci-tech texts in the course of preparing their qualifying papers. The suggested interdisciplinary model covers three stages of realization: initial stage (activates knowledge in the subject area transferred to the foreign language environment), cognitive-communicative stage (activates the cognitive processes to develop the levels of thinking within the framework of Bloom's taxonomy), and communicative-productive stage (develops communicative strategies for writing abstracts of patent documents in English).

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Approach to Modeling in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in the Ukrainian Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Svitlana Fedorenko ◽  
Svitlana Kolomiiets ◽  
Yana Tikan ◽  
Oleksiy Tsepkalo
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction

The article highlights exploiting modeling in the interdisciplinary educational process at a modern technical university in Ukraine. The focus of the study is to consider the interdisciplinary approach to modeling in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to develop technical students' strategic competence as the cognitive ability to intervene in solving various problems. The methodology involves the complex of complementary methods: analysis of psychological and pedagogical sources on the issue under study; the observation of the educational process, and monographic practice (interpreting the results obtained in a coherent, logical perspective); generalization and systematization of the collaboration between the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Faculty of Linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (after this officially abbreviated name – Igor Sikorsky KPI) on implementing the model of interdisciplinary interaction to develop students' strategic competence through producing secondary sci-tech texts in the course of preparing their qualifying papers. The suggested interdisciplinary model covers three stages of realization: initial stage (activates knowledge in the subject area transferred to the foreign language environment), cognitive-communicative stage (activates the cognitive processes to develop the levels of thinking within the framework of Bloom's taxonomy), and communicative-productive stage (develops communicative strategies for writing abstracts of patent documents in English).

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Aspects of Teaching English for Specific Purposes via Bilingual Projects

Linguaculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Veronia Martynyuk ◽  
Olena Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The present paper deals with innovative approaches to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the field of interdisciplinarity. The paper starts with the novelty and topicality of the issue in question. It makes an attempt to eliminate a contradiction now apparent in Ukrainian education regarding the theoretical foundations and practical application of the basic ESP principles in vocational schools and universities. The authors explore the concept of interdisciplinarity and its didactic potential when applied to the ESP teaching process. It is stated that the interdisciplinary approach is able to provide new and exciting possibilities when it stimulates the learners’ interest in foreign languages both in and outside of an educational environment. The paper introduces a new methodological option in the ESP educational process – an interdisciplinary bilingual project. As it dares to be an innovative type of group project, some theoretical considerations are necessarily discussed. Its basic categories, implementation objectives, interdisciplinary characteristics are identified. The paper justifies the didactic appropriateness of the project in question and its interdisciplinary practicality.

scholarly journals The teaching of terminological literacy basics to engineering students

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Elvira Yakovlevna Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Written Communication ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Semantic Orientation ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Corpus Selection ◽  
Specialized Subject

The article analyses the significance of the formation of students’ terminological literacy in the process of English for Specific Purposes teaching at technical university and describes the conditions providing the efficiency of this process. The author emphasizes the necessity to a create terminological thesaurus which includes the most frequent systemized specialized discipline specific vocabulary and specialized subject area word families required to professional-oriented oral and written communication and provides logically-semantic orientation in the text. The author specifies the factors assumed as a basis for terminological corpus selection, shows the procedure of thesaurus creation and describes the activities used to teach terminological literacy.  Keywords: Terminological literacy, English for Specific Purposes, terminological thesaurus, specialized discipline specific vocabulary, professional-oriented oral and written communication.

scholarly journals ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
I. A. Musikhin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Specific Search

In the era of globalization, English communication for scientists and engineers whose native language is not English has become as important as their major related abilities. The paper describes the results of a four-year experience in the development of English for specific purpose manuals in the field of photogrammetry, interferometry, and GNSS technologies, as well as key teaching methods and didactic approaches used in class and out-of-class activities. The focus of the present study is to provide a detailed description of the development and systematic updating of a relevant manual, aimed at professional language training of learners. The findings of the study reflect the importance of an ESP course for scientists and engineers: conducting a needs analysis for carrying out a specific search of relevant and reliable authentic materials, defining proper teaching methods, software and didactic approaches used in the educational process to develop the language skills necessary to be active and contributive players in the competitive world.

scholarly journals ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
I. A. Musikhin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Specific Search

In the era of globalization, English communication for scientists and engineers whose native language is not English has become as important as their major related abilities. The paper describes the results of a four-year experience in the development of English for specific purpose manuals in the field of photogrammetry, interferometry, and GNSS technologies, as well as key teaching methods and didactic approaches used in class and out-of-class activities. The focus of the present study is to provide a detailed description of the development and systematic updating of a relevant manual, aimed at professional language training of learners. The findings of the study reflect the importance of an ESP course for scientists and engineers: conducting a needs analysis for carrying out a specific search of relevant and reliable authentic materials, defining proper teaching methods, software and didactic approaches used in the educational process to develop the language skills necessary to be active and contributive players in the competitive world.

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