FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS�SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludmila Burenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skills Development

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.

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 Developing soft skills for sustainable development in environmental engineering students through foreign language learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Korolyova ◽  
Elena Voyakina ◽  
Laula Zherebayeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Environmental Engineering

The paper focuses on education for sustainable development (ESD) as an integral part of the sustainable development program with its main principles defined by UNESCO. The key competencies that must be developed in accordance with ESD are outlined. Learning a foreign language is considered from the point of view of its contribution to the process of attaining ESD goals in general and developing soft skills in environmental engineering students in particular that is closely connected with students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) and integrated with their expectations. The research is done on learners’ beliefs and expectations concerning studying a foreign language at the beginning of the academic year in order to choose the most appropriate teaching strategies for developing soft skills, WTC in L2 within the framework of ESD.

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.

Contribution of Project-Based Learning on Social Skills Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 119-145
Author(s):  
Ariana Araujo ◽  
Heidi Manninen
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Engineering Degree

The scope of this chapter is to describe and share experiences of two industrial engineers that had practiced project-based learning (PBL) during their engineering degree. Currently, authors look backward with a different perspective related to PBL as they are working as industrial engineers in different areas for 10 years in a multinational environment. Such experiences provide to the students the opportunity of developing soft skills that would be difficult to obtain following a traditional expositive lecture, more focused on individual work. Several challenges and advantages of learning by doing with PBL prepare students and contribute for their professional life because this kind of learning is closer to the professional daily life. In this chapter, four main experiences faced by the authors as engineering students are reported. Furthermore, the importance of experience like that and its contribution for the professional life is explained from the authors' point of view.

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.

An intensive presentations course in English for aeronautical engineering students using cyclic video recordings

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Tatzl
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Paper Questionnaire ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering

AbstractThis article presents the design and evaluation of an intensive presentations course for aeronautical engineering students based on cyclic video recordings. The target group of this course in English for specific purposes (ESP) were undergraduate final-year students who needed to improve their presentation and foreign language skills to prepare for graduation and the workplace or further studies. This evaluative practitioner case study employed a mixed-methods design relying on a tailored paper questionnaire survey, teacher-assessed final presentations and teacher observation in class. Respondents were asked to rate course-related statements on language learning and presentation skills development on a 5-point Likert scale. With two student year groups in consecutive years, attendance at and engagement in the course were high, and student evaluations (

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