Pedagogical aspect of development of professionally significant language skills of engineering students

Abstract

Abstract The study investigates the pedagogical aspect of forming the professionally significant language skills of future engineers. The results emphasize the determining role of employees who are called “linear personnel”. It stands out that one of the factors ensuring the successfulness and effectiveness of the professional activities of a linear engineer is his ability to act confidently in the foreign environments, receive, process and transmit professionally significant information in a foreign language. In justice to previous research in this direction, we note that they practically do not reflect the problems of developing professionally significant language skills in a technical university that are directly related to the types and functions of an engineer’s professional activity. The results obtained during the experiment showed that situational language teaching characterized by the verbal and cogitative task, problems is an effective means of forming the professionally significant language skills of future engineers. Situations developed and tested by the authors in the training courses build up the language interaction close to as real as in various professional situations.