ON PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF CONCENTRATED TRAINING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN NON-LINGUISTIC HIGHER INSTITUTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of implementation of concentrated training a foreign language in a non-linguistic higher institution. The author considers organizational foundations, pedagogical peculiarities and didactic conditions of concentrated training in order to increase the effectiveness of building the students’ foreign language communicative competence. Concentrated training has variability in the use that can be adapted to conditions of non-linguistic higher institution. The paper reflects two variants of concentrated training applied in the research; they are specifically concentrated teaching as potentially the most effective option and a combination of concentrated training and traditional teaching which is more accessible for practical implementation in a non-linguistic higher institution. The publication describes the experience of implementing the concentrated training the foreign language in the non-linguistic institution of higher education. The author declares development and application of didactic-methodical support of concentrated training as a means of building the foreign language communicative competence of students trained in non-linguistic higher institutions. The contents of the subject “Foreign Language” is designed as a series of meaningful units. List of topics is transformed into a list of modules and module content is implemented as a set of learning units with each of them representing the contents of a long training session lasting six to eight semester hours. The methodology of the long training session was developed in accordance with the daily mental performance of students, variety of forms and learning activities applied allowed to avoid fatigue. The concentrated training session resulted in significant timesavings as opposed to traditional training and thus it methodologically contributed to academic activity. The paper reveals the experimental work and results it has demonstrated, exactly increase of the students’ foreign language communicative competence which proved the overall efficiency of concentrated training.