FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE ENGINEERS’ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
The article puts forward the formation conditions of a future engineer professional foreign language competency. Based on the analysis of different authors’ opinions and judgments, approaches in the interpretation of professional competence are identified, characterizing the term through different perspectives. The experience of teaching the academic discipline "foreign language" at a railway university using project-based methodology is described along with the stage of project defense. The aim of the article is to present the abilities of modern technologies usage in studying Computer Technology subjects. There is an attempt to open the base and productivity of professional-oriented communicative tasks in this article. The tasks contribute to improving the quality of the future engineer professional training and bridging the gap between theory and practice. At the final stage of training, students present prepared projects in their specialty. Completing project assignments allows students to see the practical benefits of learning a foreign language. The results obtained can be applied by teachers of both technical and humanitarian higher educational institutions. The result of using the project-based method in the classroom was good results in learning a foreign language and the opportunity to apply these skills to establish interdisciplinary connections. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that the interdisciplinary project-defense has a number of advantages - raised motivation, scope for creative and constructive activity, visual integration of knowledge in various subjects of the program.