The article describes the 2013-2019 study, conducted at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), and involved 221 undergraduate students of Computer Science and Cybernetics Faculty. The research aimed at developing students' motivation to selfimprovement of foreign language (FL) proficiency as a whole and listening comprehension competence in particular. We made a primary focus on listening comprehension improvement in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom since the students had performed poorer in listening than in the other ESP final exam activities. A new methodology for listening comprehension skills development through computer-assisted training activities related to the participants' professional environment (technological) was proposed. The experiment, which encompassed a three-stage metacognitive strategy training based on TED Talks online conference resource, was carried out. New was the idea that the students multitasked at all experiment stages -Listening Comprehension Input, Live Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Output -that is, combined a "live listening" activity with reading, writing and speaking practice. Statistical analysis of the 2013-2019 ESP exam results based on the descriptive method, single-factor ANOVA and effect size measurement quantitatively proved the efficacy of the implemented methodology. The worked-out methodology might be used an alternative to traditional teaching techniques due to approach fruitfulness.
The conducted research reveals the efficacy of a mind-mapping training technique within the English for Specific Purposes university course. The study aims at assessing the influence of mind maps on the students' motivation and language academic performance. To achieve the objective, it became relevant to study the step-by-step educational development of a university entrant, junior student and, then, a graduate as the result of practicing mind-mapping activities in classes. To accomplish the research tasks successfully it was necessary to apply the following methods: observation research, questioning, testing, output data calculating, modelling, foreseen data checking. The methods of statistical analysis, namely: data correlation, factor analysis, consequent implication, and content analysis were chosen. The three-stage experiment was fulfilled within the 2016-2018 academic years at the Faculty of Computer Sciences and Cybernetics (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) and encompassed three groups of participants namely, the university entrants, the students of the first and fourth years of study. The research results show foreign language academic proficiency enhancement. The data prove that the respondents from the experimental research groups (in contrast to the control groups' outcomes) considered mind-mapping activities interesting and engaging. Such a learning motivation boost is due to the participants' associative, spatial and geometric thinking ability activation. Further investigation correlating students' motivation and mind maps' content is needed to facilitate the English for Specific Purposes university training.
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