FORMING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES.

The article describes the experience of organizing English as a foreign language enhancement courses for university content teachers and instructors and other employees. The ground of English as a foreign language enhancement courses building is the following: active use of foreign languages is becoming a necessary condition that enables to reach and maintain high level of research and teaching, competitiveness in forefront fields of science and technology for universities of a new type - national research ones. The experience discussed here embraces the content of English for professional purposes as a foreign language enhancement courses for university content teachers and instructors and other employees. Goals and learning outcomes are described within the competence approach, which allows planning and evaluating learning process in the terms of concrete results closely connected to professional activities of learners. The under viewed audience of English as foreign language enhancement courses is content teachers and instructors and other employees of Tomsk Polytechnic University that possess command of the English language of Intermediate and upper Intermediate level of proficiency. We determine the sphere of professional competence application, knowledge and skills usage for the target audience as the following:•·in teaching: preparing and delivering lectures, seminars and laboratory sessions for students of technical specialties, including foreign students, developing of teaching materials;•in research: paper work in English, preparing a report, presentations of research findings, preparing for international events participation, collaborative research with international research partners.Taking into consideration the complexity of the tasks described above psychology of learning becomes an important factor in implementing innovative technologies into the learning process as well as in realizing modern theories of education and didactics when teaching adults. Psychology of learning embraces analysis and application of psychological factors that influence learning productivity. It is extremely important that in our case proficiency in English as a foreign language influences directly the productivity of pedagogical work and research results. Forming psychological competence allows forming positive attitude to foreign language learning and evaluating adequately individual progress in foreign language learning of adult learners. This component is paid great attention to in the specially designed discipline within English as a foreign language enhancement courses for university content teachers and instructors and other employees. All these factors - professional competence, competence in English as a foreign language, psychological competence-together attribute to the forming of professional portrait of a modern technical university employee - a content teacher, instructor andother.

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