PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING FOR NON-LINGUISTIC STUDENTS BY CASE METHOD
The article is dedicated to one of the most essential tasks for higher educational institutions, the specialist quality training with flexible thinking, analyzing ability, and predicting ability, ready for self-improvement, having professional competence and corresponding to the needs of modern society. Knowledge of foreign languages is one of the links in the specialist competitiveness, which is the key to professional success in the modern world. Foreign languages become a necessity in connection with the expansion of international, cultural and business contacts in various fields of science and technology. Understanding of a foreign language in professional sphere presupposes the professional communication formation and the expansion of professional knowledge for future technical direction specialists. The article describes professionally oriented teaching of foreign languages for future civil engineers on the case method with an example of a situation “Modern construction technologies”. The practical application of the method case in English with third-year students of the Engineering and Technical Institute is described. The use of the construction techniques case method in the educational process close to the real professional environment allows future specialists to realize the opportunities for professional communication and also solve professional problems in English. This English teaching approach determines the effectiveness of the method and the consideration of the technical students’ needs, which implies the interrelation of theory and practice. Construction technologies case method gives an opportunity to use language as a means for professionally-oriented education and training a specialist for the future profession. Necessity and approbation of the case method lead to not only general competencies, but also professional thinking.