Aspects of using dictionaries in the process of academic English teaching and acquisition

In the article, the linguistic characteristics of academic English are considered. The vocabulary and genres of academic English are addressed. The types of dictionaries currently available to university students are defined. It is established that academic language is linguistically diverse across discourses, genres, and disciplines. The variations in academic language demand a range of linguistic skills from students. Learners therefore need access to language tools, notably dictionaries, in their studies. The analysis of the respective dictionaries demonstrates that none of them is suitable for academic English acquisition. They are too comprehensive in coverage, contain linguistically demanding definitions and offer little encoding information. A need for dictionaries that would meet the students’ demands is defined.

The state and the optimization conditions of the success achievement process in the formation of the students’ health culture

The article deals with the problems of students’ healthcare of higher educational establishments. The Law of Ukraine «On Education», «The National Doctrine of the Development of Education in Ukraine», «The Concepts of Children and Youth Education in the National System of Education» emphasize the need to create organizational, psychological and pedagogical conditions for the personal and physical development and self-development of students, their self-realization in accordance with abilities, social and personal interests, preparation for independent life. The aim of the research is to find out the state of the students’ health culture formation and the ways to increase the level of health culture in the educational process of higher education. Pedagogical conditions for the health culture formation include the educational environment, that is the teacher of physical education, and the students’ involvement in sports and mass recreational work outside the classroom. It is necessary to offer students the opportunity to be engaged in motor activity at a time convenient for them, that is, to combine the directions of physical culture – physical education with mass sports, aimed at providing motor activity of students during their leisure time. The forms of conducting physical education classes (on a student’s choice) can be fitness classes, cheerleading, table tennis, badminton, power fitness, volleyball, football, aerobics, sports dances, etc. It is understandable that such forms of conducting classes require financial support to the higher educational establishments, which financially will not be able to provide themselves with such a wide range of health-motor programs. At the state level, this should be included into the legislative documents and be financially supported. An analysis of the questionnaire among students is given on the basis of which students choose modern, rather than classical, physical education, including strength fitness, dance fitness, cross-fitness, table tennis, badminton, football, volleyball, basketball; and a new form of conducting classes is a section work in stead of classical physical education classes.

Training technologies in Ukrainian for Specific Purposes

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the use of training technologies in the process of study rig the subject « Ukrainian for Specific Purposes», find out the role of a teacher in the trainings, provide methodological recommendations for the introduction of training technologies in Ukrainian language classes in higher education institutions. Training technologies in anon creating conditions for self-disclosure of the student’s personality in order to implement his communicative Ukrainian language competencies in the simulated situations of future professional activities. Educational and training sessions have been differentiated. The peculiarities of conducting trainings in academic student groups that consist of homogeneous members acquainted with each other, of the same age, combined in one academic group for mastering one specialty. Such a membership allows reducing its organizational part. Instead, the emphasis is placed on the main part of the training session, where there is active interaction while training certain competence. For each tags of short-term and multiple (cyclical) trainings in the Ukrainian language, methodical recommendations for didactic exercises of some topics of the discipline curriculum in Ukrainian for Specific Purposes classes are provided. Examples of interactive exercises that are effective at the main and final stages of the training session are given. The functions of a teacher at the training session have been analyzed with regard to such terms as instructor, a trainer, a coach, a group leader, an organizer, a moderator, a time manager, an expert, an analyst, a negotiator and an announcer. According to the author of the article, the coach is the most suitable concept that corresponds to the purpose, stages and methodology of conducting a training session. The conclusion has been made on the expediency of introducing training technologies in the conditions of reducing the auditorium time to study the discipline «Ukrainian for Specific Purposes».

Contemporary methodological approaches to the process of forming a personality of leader-patriot in the University educational environment

The article arises the issue of forming a personality of a student as a leader-patriot in the University educational environment. It presents the theoretical analysis of the concept «approach» and opens the content of its basic components. The article reveals methodological approaches used by scholars in pedagogical researches on different scientific problems. There is the analysis of the presence of methodological approaches in different models of patriotic, national-patriotic and military-patriotic education of the youth. On the basis of the conducted analysis there have been defined basic methodological approaches that will be used in forming the qualities of a leader-patriot among students in the University educational environment.

Foreign language teacher education in psycho-pedagogical research

The unprecedented growth in the quantity, as well as quality of publications on language teacher education supported by the domain’s increasing experiential background opens up new avenues for enhancing the effectiveness of foreign language teacher education in Ukraine. Hence, the present paper aims at analyzing and singling out recurrent research themes, defining the mainstream approaches of the field of language teacher education, which constitute the emerging theoretical foundations of the field’s knowledge base. The review of the state-of-the-art publications has enabled the specification of the following research areas, pertinent to foreign language teacher education: language teacher cognition, the knowledge base of language teachers, language teacher identity, reflection, language teacher research and action research, language teacher professionalism, the role of teacher education, effectiveness of teaching, expertise, competence, teacher development and some others. The analysis of research suggests overall proliferation of the number of studies on the problem of language teacher education during the past 30˗40 years. Nevertheless, the comparison of the volume of studies highlighting general aspects of teacher education to those specifically related to foreign/second language teacher education reveals the quantitative advantage of the former. More efforts are needed at elaborating language teacher focused issues which stem from the nature of foreign language as a discipline, the socio-cultural role of language teachers and the role of foreign language in particular. Further limitations of the field-related research base, include: 1) a rather small proportion of empirical studies, necessary to provide informed answers for important questions of language teacher education; 2) the majority of available empirical studies are small-scale and contextually limited, which excludes the possibility of generalizations; 3) the field’s overall reliance on traditions, intuition and practical experience, with little regard for theoretical foundations; 4) paucity of research that present systematic complex generalizations of the field’s knowledge base;

Ensuring the professional and ethical orientation of the personality of a future specialist in banking

The article highlights theoretical aspects of the professional and ethical orientation of the personality of a future specialist in banking. The author consistently examines the key concepts of the problem under study and defines the relationship between them. On the basis of this, specification of the professional and ethical orientation of the personality of a future specialist in the industry has been disclosed. It is shown that the professional and ethical orientation of the personality of a specialist in banking is strengthening of his/her positive attitude towards the future profession, interests, inclinations and abilities to it, the desire to improve his/her qualifications, the development of ideals, views, beliefs about the importance of following the ethical norms in professional activity. The author considers the need to increase the interest of students in studying the problems of professional ethics by means of potential of the educational process. The content of educational materials, a review of literature on the topic, the emphasis on the practical significance of the material and its importance for the profession are determined as important aspects for achieving set goals. It is pointed out that the basis of professional and ethical knowledge is the knowledge acquired in the study of such disciplines as «Ethics and Aesthetics», «Ethics of business communication», «Psychology of business success». The necessity to combine the material of the Humanities with the current problems of banking and the life aspirations of students and to help them to determine their value orientations, to enrich their moral personality potential has been noted in the article. According to the author the professional interest acquired by the students should have special personal content, related to their daily life and future life prospects. In order to do this, it is important to emphasize the importance of professional and ethical knowledge in the activities of the banking industry, to reveal its entirety with the ethical content of the chosen profession at the announcement of the topic at each class.

Balance state development and correction methods in preschool children

In the article the methods of balance function formation in preschool children with musculoskeletal system disorders are systematized and analyzed. In the basis of dynamic stability correction in this children contingent were laid phylogenetically predisposed mechanisms of the postural aplomb system, reflected in periods of early child ontogeny: vestibular - visual - proprioceptive - gift - oculomotor. To improve each of these input channels of the aplomb postural system, a specific technique algorithm for the development and correction of the balance function in preschool children with motor disorders was developed. For the vestibular channel it is suggested to use methods of hydraulic inverted (mirroring), "weightlessness", smoothness (metered angular accelerations). For the visual channel you can use the methods of "dark room", "tuning fork", "dawn". Proprioceptive channel improvement of the postural aplomb system involves the use of gradually reducing methods of bearing surface area, strengthening proprioceptive sensations (the method of "two fans"). The given canal of the child vestibular system can be developed using such methods as "topographic", "two-axis – one-axis", sensory stimulation, contrast method, and also the method of "stilts". The oculomotor system of child with balance state disturbances can be improved by the method of expanding oculomotor space-time eyes possibilities, the method of the ball, as well as the method of visual selective object capture, separating it from a variety of objects or from fleeting environment. This classification of methods are given with their conditional division into natural, phylogenetic and ontogenetic predetermined, and artificial, based on the use of the subject-spatial component (equipment, simulators and inventory), as well as the use of the possibilities of information and computer technologies with reverse biological bonds. The prospects of studying the development methods and correction of balance function in preschool children with motor disorders is the development of specific exercise complexes for each of the developed methods, followed by their practical testing in this children contingent.

Pedagogical conditions of preparation of future rehabilitation specialists to work in conditions of inclusive students 'training

The article substantiates pedagogical conditions of preparation of future rehabilitation teachers to work in the conditions of inclusive teaching of students. It is revealed that the realization of the first condition (formation of students of stable positive motivational orientation to inclusive learning through the use of interactive forms and active teaching methods) was ensured through the use of interactive forms (psychological-pedagogical practicum, lectures-discussions) , panel talk (panel debate), panel discussion, closed discussion in microgroups, small group work, psycho-gymnastics), active teaching methods (question-answer here, the “half-voice discussion” method, the clinic method, heuristic questions, the reproduction of the professional situation, business games, game therapy, relaxation exercises, selection and creation of individual portfolio, scenario method, brainstorming, gateway method a holistic view of students' level of motivation was used by the “Map of Social Motives Development”. socio-pedagogical work with children with special educational needs) provided for updating the content of disciplines ("Fundamentals of inclusive education" "Correctional psychopedagogy", "General pedagogy", "Psychological and pedagogical bases of correctional and educational work); use of organizational forms (seminar, discussions, debates, abstracts, research, pedagogical practice, out-of-class activities), methods (roleplaying games, analysis of pedagogical situations, performance of creative tasks, complex of psychological and pedagogical exercises, planning of rehabilitation) . It is proved that the realization of the third pedagogical condition (realization of quasi-professional activity aimed at mastering the ways and experience of performing specific professional actions during inclusive student learning) was carried out with the use of technologies: game technologies, technologies of correction and rehabilitation work, technology of formation of technology.

Pedagogical conditions for the formation of the future border guard officer professional culture: the use of dialogical teaching methods

The article highlights the importance of the communicative component of the professional culture of the border guard officer, which is based on the fact that the profession of the border guard envisages a wide range of interpersonal contacts at different levels, primarily collective concerted actions of the border guards to prevent or terminate illegal actions at border guard areas. The significance of dialogical methods, first of all heuristic conversations, presentations, method of «brainstorming», «round table» method, «business game» method, practical group and individual exercises, discussion of video recordings, for forming of professional culture of future border guards, are revealed in details. The peculiarities of the use of dialogical methods in the system of forming the professional culture of the future border guards, especially during the teaching the educational discipline «Ukrainian for Professional Purposes» at the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service named after Bohdan Khmelnitsky. The subject of special attention in the article is the disclosure of the peculiarities of cadets studying the rules of conversation with citizens who cross the state border at the checkpoints, the specifics of the official communication of the border guard inspector as an element of his professional culture. It has been determined that dialogical methods are important for shaping the professional culture of the future border guards and for optimizing their interpersonal relationships. They allow you to teach the cadets the rules, values and norms of the professional cultural interaction between classmates, the features of professional interaction at the checkpoints. The use of dialogue methods helps to form the skills of the cadets freely, communicatively justified to use linguistic means in different forms, spheres and genres of speech, that is, to provide an appropriate level of communicative component of their professional culture.

Diagnostic results of the acmeological culture of future music teachers in the process of singing

The article presents the results of the diagnosis of acmeological culture of future music teachers in the process of singing. Based on the developed system of criteria and indicators of the structural components of the studied phenomenon (motivational-value, cognitive-developmental, communicative-heuristic and creative-projective), the contents of the phased diagnostic technique of the ascertaining experiment, which consists of pedagogical conversations, oral questioning, questioning, testing, essay – annotations, creative tasks, typical types of conducting and choral activities, expert assessments, mathematical methods of data processing. The levels of formation of the acmeological culture of future music teachers are determined, their substantive characteristics are formulated. Ukraine's accession to a single European educational space declares new requirements for professional training of music teachers. Increasingly, it is becoming necessary to focus higher education on the training of professionals capable of professional mobility, rapid adaptation to new educational conditions, self-realization and self-improvement throughout life – individuals with high levels of acmeological culture. According to the results of the ascertainment experiment, the calculation of the arithmetic mean of quantitative indicators by certain structural components was performed: motivational-value, cognitive-developmental, communicative-heuristic and creative-design. Of particular importance is the problem of formation of acmeological culture in the singing activity of future music teachers. It is the high professionalism of vocal-choral activity of the music teacher that not only enhances the prestige of the teacher's profession, but also provides a peculiarity of personal influence of the teacher-professional on the spiritual development of students by means of vocal-choral art.