Project-Based Research Coworking for Teaching English Oral Discourse 205 to Master's Students

This article aims at examining the challenges faced by higher education under the increasing demands of the globalized world. There is an urgent requirement in the application of innovative educational technologies. In this connection, the authors turn to the concept "coworking" and thoroughly examine its application in the fields of economics and pedagogy. The analysis of literature has enabled the authors to establish that coworking is defined as a special organization of space for doing business and as an approach for organizing the work of people with different occupations for communication and creative interaction in a common space. The authors specify that in pedagogy "coworking" is a relatively new concept that has been used only since 2016. The specificity of the authors' approach brought them to defining a new term, i.e., "project-based research coworking". The suggested definition describes it as a linguodidactic environment and as an educational technology for teaching the foreign-language scientific and academic discourse to non-linguistic master's students. The characteristics of educational coworking are revealed. The specified new educational technology is defined as a systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives. The purpose, objectives, content and principles of the coworking technology are defined. Next, the methodology for the implementation of project-based research coworking is described. It is known that teaching communication in a foreign language is teaching to master, create and use discourses. The authors propose to implement the teaching framework based on the following interrelated principles: the principle of professional orientation, the principle of communicative orientation, the principle of cognitive orientation, the principle of learner-centered learning, the principle of problem-based learning. The content basis of instruction is the scientific and academic discourse. The purpose of teaching is achieved through a combination of various teaching methods, in particular the project-based method, the problem-based method, information technologies, collaborative learning, and traditional communicative methods. Project work is student-centered and driven by the need to create an end-product. The authors identify some specific features of ESP teaching based on the project-based research coworking technology and describe the methodology of its implementation.

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