The role of unsupervised work in shaping communicative competence in tourism managers in higher education institutions
The article touches upon topical issues of organising students’ unsupervised work during the professional language training of tourism managers at a university. The purpose of this research paper is to study the types of in-class and extra-curricular unsupervised work, its principles and goals. The author of the article focuses on the fact that in order to develop the students’ creativity, the teacher needs to systematically study their interests, to assess the individual levels, to help in understanding the logic of the subject and its structure, and also to teach ways of performing various tasks independently, including scientific research, solving educational and intellectual problems. Significant attention in the study is paid to the role of project work at foreign language classes. The article proves the idea that the project method is one of the effective methods for shaping communicative competence in tourism managers. Taking into account the results of the analysis of previous experience and the work of scientists on this topic, the author makes an attempt to develop a strategy for working on a project both during classes and in unsupervised extra-curricular work. The article gives an example of developing the vocabulary and subsequent presentations in a foreign language using speech clichés.