Assessment of engineering students on the formed foreign language professional communication culture

Abstract

The study intends to contribute to the issue of developing in engineering students the ability to apply gained knowledge in future professional activities. Generalisation of practical experience of foreign languages teaching at engineering faculties of Ukrainian universities has made it possible to distinguish particular problems: insufficiently developed teaching and methodological provision; inefficient organisation of classroom and independent work of students; poor motivation of non-language faculty students for the foreign language professional communication, etc. In this study it has been proved that the following pedagogical conditions impact the formation of foreign language professional communication culture of engineering students: 1) organisational and managerial support of its formation process; 2) integration of communicative-context and competency-based approaches in the educational process; 3) professional-ethical and social-cultural orientation of its formation process. The results of the study have demonstrated the positive dynamics of indicators of foreign language professional communication culture formation of engineering students. If at the beginning of our experimental work 12.7% of students of the experimental group demonstrated the high level of formation of culture, then at the end of the forming experiment this indicator increased almost twice − 23.6%. At a low level, the proportion of students of experimental group decreased by 14.5%.