The article deals with the issue of adjusting modern teaching methods of teaching English for specific purposes to digital era challenges.According to the authors’, modern teaching methods of communicative approach ought to adopted to be used in the virtual classes. Moreover, there is a number of benefits, which should be taken into consideration whist conduction online classes.It is highlighted that the students of Z generation have developed certain psychological peculiarities. As a result, they affect the methods and techniques that the teacher has to apply for successful professional foreign language development. This competence is developed along with subject information competence.
The article deals with the issue of blended learning adoption into teaching the second (master’s degree) level in the field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration’ seekers English for Specific Purposes.The foreign professional language new methodology introduction aims to solve the problem of qualitative compensation of learning content by the retrainees: the Civil Protection and Fire Safety professionals, air- communicators and firefighting radiotelephone operators as the result of a high level of classes missing caused by occupational necessity.
According to the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum the aim of learning is developing not a separate set of language tools but an integrated system of skills in order to be used in situational and professional communication [1, p. 5].In order to achieve the main aim, an appropriate level of ESP competence is developed, consisting of foreign language knowledge, language, communicative skills as well as general technical skills.As a result, learning as a model of real communication diminishes the language tool set in order to satisfy the certain students' needs. Authentic teaching materials are also supposed to be used to provide the professionally focused communication under the conditions of intercultural communication [2, p. 7].Mentioned above language knowledge, skills to use a set of lexical, grammatical tools builds up the premise for further self-work with ESP corresponding to educational challenges and harmonic unity of learning and future professional activities.Thus commutative situations that are typical for professional domain encourage students to use ESP in class and make the learning process as close as possible to natural professional communication.Relatively, ESP competence is considered to be a complex personal issue, developed during the language learning and consisting of linguistic,
Responding to the modern challenges in the educational domain and an increase interest of the appropriate level of English among the public servants of SESU, the Language Training Department of the Institute of Public Administration in the Sphere of Civil Protection initiated the research work aimed to improve the training content and methodology of teaching English for Specific Purposes for level in the field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration’ in April 2019. A significant contribution to the development of the theory, methodology and the certain methodological issue developing were made by a number of scientist such as O. Bykonia, V. Chernysh, Z. Korneeva, G. Dyvnych, R. Makarova, Ya. Mandryk, M. Dyachenko, T. Dudley-Evans, T. Hutchinson, A. Waters, P. Strevens and others. At the same time, some thorough research of the legal framework in order to reveal the potential premises to improve methodology of teaching English for Specific Purposes for level in the field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration’ has not been done under the condition of modern reforms in the education domain. The legal framework in order to reveal the potential premises to improve methodology of teaching English for Specific Purposes for the second (Master) level in field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration’ is under consideration. The article outlines the main peculiarities of the current legal framework related to the teaching English for Specific Purpose which is used as the premise for further analysis of the current curriculums used in the Language Training Department of the Institute of Public Administration in the Sphere of Civil Protection. The list of legal framework includes the Law on Education, The Law on Higher Education, The law on State Service, National ESP Curriculum of English. Clarifying the terminology used in the current regulatory environment in the sphere of professional activities of future public leaders and managers (individual learning curve, competence, learning outcomes, language proficiency, universal design in the sphere of education, curricula) has given the authors an opportunity to reveal the methodological value of the National ESP Curriculum of English and clarify the appropriate language level for Master’s degree students, evaluate the current curriculum used by the Language Training Department of the Institute of Public Administration in the Sphere of Civil Protection. Foreign language professional competence is a multi-component, hierarchically organized and multi-level phenomenon based on professional skills, knowledge and awareness. English for Specific Purposes as a discipline can be considered as the tool for developing special professional skills that create the premises to deal efficiently with challenges concerning public management, political-legislation, social-economic issues. The further analysis of the universal design in the educational sphere also let the authors clarify the teaching materials peculiarities; correlate the international current testing system with NATO STANAG 6001 used within SESU and explain the necessity to implement В1 (CEF) /СМР1+(NATO STANAG 6001) for Master’s degree students in in the field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration’. The analysis of the current legal framework related to the second (Master) educational level in field of expertize 281 ‘Public Administration has revealed the fact that, on the one hand, the current curricula structural elements and content as the elements of educational design comply with the legislation norms, on the other hand, the issues of looking for improving the training content and efficient teaching techniques to obtain the desirable language level for Master’s degree students have to be under further consideration.
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