Mironova N.A. Quality Assessment Problem for ESP Acquisition by Graduate Students Majoring in Chemistry
Nadezhda A. Mironova, Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages 2, MIREA-Russian Technological University, Vernadskiy av., 86, 119571, Moscow, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9455-945X
Abstract: Nowadays particular requirements are being made concerning language training at nonlinguistic universities. The acquisition of Foreign Language for Specific Purposes by the students of non-linguistic majors plays a fundamental part in their professional development. Federal state educational standards state the requirements of specialist’s training in terms of competencies. Language training quality is assessed in terms of professional intercultural communicational competence maturity. Cutting-edge communicative technologies are being widely used in the training courses at nonlinguistic universities. When choosing the educational model, the focus is made on professional communicative as well as social and personal development of a student. The context training techniques based on a social training model are in common use. It is crucial that the tasks selected were personally meaningful for students and result in new products. Special mention should be made of the methodological potential of interdisciplinary assignments and projects exposing students to the situations close to those they will have to deal with in their professional activity. Nevertheless, conventional methods of language training quality assessment do not simulate authentic professional communicative situations and cannot provide complex assessment of the professional intercultural communicational competence maturity. The method of conferences could be an alternative way for the final assessment. The author demonstrates that the method of conferences is relevant for the task of professional foreign language training in nonlinguistic higher educational institutions and provides the example of its use in the English language course of the master’s programme in chemistry at RTU-MIREA.
Keywords: ESP, language training quality assessment, foreign languages for chemistry majors, state educational standards, professional intercultural communicational competence, competitive specialist, Master’s degree programme
Цитирование. Mironova N.A. Quality Assessment Problem for ESP Acquisition by Graduate Students Majoring in Chemistry // Artium Magister. - 2023. - Vol. 23. - No 2. - p. 13-18.
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