Foreign language information activity of a technical university student

Abstract

   Introduction. Training future engineers for professional activities is an urgent task in modern Russian society. Changes taking place in the global space require an increased emphasis on the need for productive information interaction within the professional activities of technical specialists. The problem of technical university students` ability to use a foreign language as a means of working with professionally oriented information is posed.   The purpose of this article is to identify the features of specialists' proficiency in working with foreign language professionally oriented information and to find ways to improve the quality of information activities in a foreign language.   Materials and Methods. A review of the literature on the problems of the study was carried out. In the course of the study, methods of theoretical analysis of scientific literature, generalization and systematization, pedagogical observation and modeling were used.   Results. The main tasks of professional training of technical specialists in the field of electric power engineering and electrical engineering are given. The importance of mutual integration of professionally oriented knowledge, foreign language proficiency and a set of skills of search, processing, fixation, transfer of information has been substantiated. The category of "foreign language information activity" has been specified. In addition, the structure of foreign language information activity of a technical university student is revealed. Practical experience in forming skills of working with foreign-language professionally oriented information on the basis of the author's textbook is described. The results of the quality of mastering foreign-language information activities by technical university students are given. Discussion and Conclusions. Involving of technical university students in foreign language information activities is one of the effective ways to improve their professional training. The importance of forming and improving the skills of information activity in a foreign language among technical university students during their undergraduate and postgraduate studies is discussed. The question of the possibility of researching these processes in multilingual professional environments is raised.