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

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.

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS�SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

6th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2019 ◽

10.5593/sws.iscss.2019.4/s13.027 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ludmila Burenko

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Skills Development

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THE FORMATION OF INTELLECTUAL MOBILITY OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH INTEGRATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Advanced Education ◽

10.20535/2410-8286.121057 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (0) ◽

pp. 33-38

Author(s):

Galyna Mikhnenko ◽

Yana Absaliamova

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Professional Training ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education

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Verbal-Performance Activities for Optimizing Foreign Language Education

International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science Engineering and Education ◽

10.23947/2334-8496-2020-8-3-93-102 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 93-102

Author(s):

Gergana Dyankova ◽

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Maya Mladenova ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Educational Process ◽

Modern World ◽

Control Group ◽

Motivation For Learning ◽

Experimental Group ◽

Verbal Performance

The modern world, characterized by dynamic changes, rapid development of ICT and globalization processes sets new challenges to present-day education. This research aims at investigating the influence of applying verbal-performance activities in foreign language education. A pedagogical experiment was conducted in authentic environment with the participation of 99 pupils aged 10 to 11 who formed an experimental and a control group. The study combined qualitative and quantitative approach. It measured pupils’ entry and exit levels of practical English knowledge and communicative skills and also traced the effect of the experimental education on the pupils from the experimental group. The interpretative analyses of the results revealed that applying verbal-performance activities in foreign language education led to higher achievements in terms of knowledge and communicative competence for the pupils from the experimental group compared to the progress of the children from the control group. A measurement of the attitude of the pupils from the experimental group towards applying verbal-performance activities in the educational process proved the potential of the method to increase children’s motivation for learning. The findings of this research confirm the need of further studies on the influence of applying verbal-performance activities in a broader context of school education.

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MULTIFUNCTIONALITY IN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION: FROM AIMS TO TECHNIQUES

Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews ◽

10.18510/hssr.2020.84132 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 1429-1448

Author(s):

Elena V. Borzova ◽

Maria A. Shemanaeva

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Future Teachers ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽

Wide Range ◽

Subject Specific ◽

Key Competences

Purpose of the study: The objective of this study is to highlight one effective type of task (namely multifunctional) which enhances students` integral outcomes (key competences, subject-specific competences, and personal values) in university foreign language education. The authors set the aim to investigate whether these tasks can be used as tools to achieve multiple educational objectives, and which conditions can promote this end. Methodology: A combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods of action research was used in the study. The study embraced both non-language and language students with a wide range of foreign language levels, all future teachers of language and non-language subjects. The first part was based on the traditional PPP (“present, practice, produce”) model, the second part suggested the incorporation of multifunctional tasks into classroom activities. The qualitative and quantitative methods used in the study included a literature review and practice analysis, student interviews and questionnaires, observation, and classroom task probation. The authors also elaborated on a variety of criteria to evaluate the students` integral results. Main Findings: The outcomes of the research confirmed the effectiveness of the multifunctional tasks in terms of their contribution to the achievement of education integral outcomes. Such tasks allow noticeably improving the students` foreign language communicative competence. Simultaneously, they contribute to the development of the students` key competences as well as some personal qualities. Applications of this study: Multifunctional tasks are easily modified to different content and foreign language levels. Such tasks can also help students build up their individual learning paths in their future lifelong learning. Similarly, as future teachers, students may acquire an algorithm on how to design such tasks in their professional activities. Novelty/Originality of this study: The authors attempted to design special teaching and learning tools that allow achieving complex educational outcomes in professional foreign language education. The multifunctional tasks that they highlight in their research are multi-focused and multi-faceted which, with a high degree of probability, results in developing both the students` key and subject-specific competences.

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ANALISIS EFEKTIVITAS EXPO DAN OPEN HOUSE SERTA MINAT CALON SISWA INDONESIA DAN ASING PADA ENGLISH FIRST (EF) MALANG

Jurnal Ilmiah Bisnis dan Ekonomi Asia ◽

10.32812/jibeka.v11i2.41 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 21-26

Author(s):

Michelle Nikita Jusuf

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Foreign Students ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Language Education ◽

Research Problem ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Education Professionals ◽

Significant Difference ◽

British Institute ◽

Language And Education

At this time, it is known that in the era of globalization people are required to have such a useful provision like the foreign language skills such as English. Many foreign language education institutions also have been established in Indonesia as well as in Malang for example English First (EF), The British Institute (TBI), Institute for Language and Education Professionals LIA (LBPP LIA). Therefore, many language institutions that hold promotions in attracting students and one of them is English First (EF). There are two research problem: First, how is the differences in the effectiveness of the expo and open house to increase the number of students at the EF. Second, how is the differences in the effectiveness of expo and open house on the interests of prospective Indonesian and foreign students at EF. As this study used quantitative methods. In this research expo looks much more effective at getting students while held this event compared to the open house. In the expo can also be obtained advantages that could be closer to prospective customers and get a better response compared with the approach using the email or telephone. Effectiveness of the expo and open house at the interests of prospective Indonesian students and foreign students at the EF did not have a significant difference. In this case means that the two candidates both Indonesian and foreign students also have a passion for learning in EF.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL LINGUODIDACTICS IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT NON-LANGUISTIC SPECIALTIES OF UNIVERSITIES

Collection of Scientific Papers of Uman State Pedagogical University ◽

10.31499/2307-4906.2.2021.236695 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 212-219

Author(s):

Larysa Maksymuk ◽

Liliia Levoniuk

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Professional Learning ◽

Professional Education ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Language Education ◽

Oral Communication ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Scientific Discipline ◽

Modern World ◽

High Level

The article deals with the problem of professionally oriented foreign language education of students of non-linguistic specialties. Today, the goal of teaching a foreign language to non-linguistic specialists is the professional and business component of intercultural communication. In other words, it became necessary to train a graduate possessing professional oral communication competence, which led to the creation of a linguodidactic approach in vocational education, the theoretical and methodological foundations of which are dealt with by professional linguodidactics.In the context of professionally oriented teaching of foreign languages, we are talking about the formation of the future specialist’s secondary linguistic personality, which is a key category of professional linguodidactics. As an autonomous diversified scientific discipline, linguodidactics has its own object and subject of research, patterns, and categories, general didactic and linguistic professional principles that are actualized in the process of foreign language teaching.Professional linguodidactics is of great scientific and social importance, since it provides ample opportunities for training specialists with a high level of foreign language professional communicative competence, ensuring their mobility, competitiveness, and success in the modern world; determines the need for constant professional and creative development of foreign language teachers. Professional education creates the necessary prerequisites and conditions for conducting fundamental linguodidactic research in professionally oriented foreign language education. Keywords: professional linguodidactics, non-linguistic specialist, foreign language professional communicative competence, secondary linguistic personality, foreign language advanced specialization, integrated teaching, linguistic professional learning environment.

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