Peculiarities in teaching English professionally oriented discussion to students in Higher Educational Establishment

Abstract

The article is devoted to the scientific and theoretical substantiation of the peculiarities in teaching English professionally oriented discussion to students in Higher Educational Establishment. In modern realities, the requirements for training students with a high level of professionally oriented foreign language communicative competence are growing and the method of teaching English professionally oriented discussion in Higher Educational Establishment remains insufficiently developed determining the relevance of the study. The object of research is the process of teaching English professionally oriented discussion to students. The subject is peculiarities of teaching English professionally oriented discussion. Theoretical and empirical methods have been used in the study. Professionally oriented discussion is a form of collective-group interaction, which is based on the argumentation of different points of view in order to solve a certain problem in a professional nature. Organized educational discussion reproduces the conditions of real communication and is one of the effective means of developing unprepared speech. There are three stages in teaching English professionally oriented discussion to students of Higher Educational Establishment: the organizational stage, which involves determining the topic and purpose of the discussion; the discussion itself: due to the problem students justify their point of view by argumentation; the final stage, which involves analysis, comparison of the purpose with the results and evaluation of results. Skills of the effective discussion are formed by a system of reproductive non-communicative, receptive communicative, receptive-reproductive, conditional-communicative and productive communicative exercises at each stage of conducting professionally oriented discussion in English. The prospect of further research is practical development of the system of exercises and selection of techniques and technologies for each stage in order to conduct English professionally oriented discussion effectively in Higher Educational Establishment.