Developing Communicational Abilities in Professional Environments Through English Language Teaching

Rus, Dana; Medrea, Nicoleta

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(12)00290-0

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“…Another important conclusion made by Andrade et al opens up some space for debate around the studied issue. While Rus and Medrea [5] give evidence of students' realizing the importance of developing English communication skills, the results of Andrade et al's study suggest otherwise: "Another concern is that views on the importance of English language skills differ between students and employers. According to the International Education Advisory Council, only one in five international graduates thought that English language competency was one of the most important skills that employers were looking for, while employers rated English language competency as one of the four key attributes" [8].…”

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“…Rus and Medrea in their article "Developing communicational abilities in professional environments through English language teaching" wrote, "Students and teaching staff alike are highly aware of the asset that good communication skills represent in the conditions of the contemporary world. Inevitably, the English knowledge is a must in this equation: responsible for this is the highly globalized economy, the emergence of English as the lingua franca of the technical discourse and also the opening of the labor market outside the confines of the national territory" [5].…”

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Raising a New Generation of Professionals: Revising the Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages to Non-Linguistic University Students

Ananyina¹,

Abramova²,

Makarova³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the “New Silk Road: Business Cooperation and Prospective of Economic Development” (NSRBCPED 2019)

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Current global economic processes bring into focus strengthening international cooperation, developing transparent partnerships, and establishing professional exchange. This leads to the necessity to narrow the gap between higher professional education and the requirements of business and economic environment. National educational models need to intensify the shift from knowledge-based teaching to developing truly competitive competences, with special focus on foreign language communicative competence. This paper presents the results of teaching quasi-professional group communication in English to the students of non-linguistic university majors. The aim of the research was to analyze the experience of forming soft skills and educational competence through English language communication between the students of economy and international relations from two Russian state universities. The authors used the method of comparative analysis of formal structured survey results, and the methods of statistical data processing. The preliminary survey revealed that the respondents suffered from foreign language anxiety, were not ready to communicate with many people at once, and preferred free discussions to regulated professionally valuable polylogue. In order to overcome the communication barriers the authors designed and tested an experimental alternative teaching methodology. The preliminary research results lead to the conclusion that raising a new generation of professionals with soft skills and educational competence required by the new Russian economy is hardly possible without extending the range of teaching tools and changing approaches to teaching nonlinguistic university students how to use a foreign language for professional communication.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Raising a New Generation of Professionals: Revising the Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages to Non-Linguistic University Students

Ananyina¹,

Abramova²,

Makarova³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the “New Silk Road: Business Cooperation and Prospective of Economic Development” (NSRBCPED 2019)

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“…It is worth mentioning that nowadays there is a growing need for a new type of a professional -an educated person, who in addition to the traditional skills and competences, required in professional field, would have more universal or cross-disciplinary characteristics. Therefore "students and teaching staff alike are highly aware of the asset that good professional skills represent in the conditions of the contemporary world [14]". Among those skills are an ability to critically analyze each other's experience, create multiple alternatives and choose the most appropriate ones for a particular professional situation, the ability to network and work in groups, the ability to learn and share, etc.…”

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Innovative approaches to foreign language teaching in Russian universities

Bolshak

Voloshina

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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The article considers an innovative approach to teaching foreign languages in higher learning institutions, which is prompted by the forthcoming structural reform of higher education in Russia. The essence of this innovative method is peer learning. Integrating this method into foreign language classes has a number of advantages. First of all, it gives opportunities for students to share their experience and knowledge with each other without any concerns over the age difference. Then, it allows them to prove their language skills. Finally, it provides a sense of self-esteem: our data indicate that students feel more confident and self-aware when they demonstrate their expertise participating in cooperative learning tasks in a foreign language. So the primary concept of peer learning is that changing their knowledge students learn from each other. The article provides effective teaching techniques of implementing individual and group work through peer learning strategy and describes some cooperative learning situations which can improve students’ proficiency in English.

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Developing Communicational Abilities in Professional Environments Through English Language Teaching

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Raising a New Generation of Professionals: Revising the Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages to Non-Linguistic University Students

Raising a New Generation of Professionals: Revising the Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages to Non-Linguistic University Students

Innovative approaches to foreign language teaching in Russian universities

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