Integrative teaching foreign language for engineering graduates in context of specialty

The paper discusses the integrative method of teaching workplace English. The focus group is master students of engineering specialties. The method is based on ideas of the activity and student-centered approaches. A feature of the method is the organization of in-depth students activity based on the significant professional foreign language information, the introduction of a special foreign language lexicon in the context of its professional use, the study of the principles of reading and writing scientific texts, the use of study and quasi professional problems, and intensive discussions concerning master thesis researches. The results of two years of testing the proposed method are suggested. The assessment of the effectiveness of integrative teaching was conducted in several aspects in accordance with the objectives that were set when designing the educational process. Following types of assessment were implored: comprehensive testing conducted in English and based on professionally important problems; assessment of professional foreign language discourse in the course of analysis of oral utterances of learners; and the analysis of changes in the field of a master students motivational-value sphere based on surveys.

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