DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSION-ORIENTED TEXTBOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ACCREDITATION BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to the issues of the necessity to develop the profession-oriented textbooks in English for students specializing in management at the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. These textbooks are necessary for receiving the accreditation of the European Council for Business Education. The author aims to analyze the basic principles of the textbook development and to describe how these principles are implemented in the textbook “English for managers”. Methods. Such research methods as the theoretical and empirical ones including the analysis and synthesis of the information available in psychological and pedagogical literature, as well as modelling, observation and experiment are used by the author. Results. In the study, the author considers practical forms of developing the textbook for the students specializing in management at the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. The implementation of the basic didactic principles in the textbook development is examined. Practical implication and results. The results of the study may be of interest for the teachers of English at the non-linguistic higher educational institutions implementing the provisions of the Bologna Declaration. The information may be used as guidelines for improving the effectiveness of the non-linguistic higher education institutions to receive not only domestic, but also foreign accreditation.

Keywords

• English
• teaching
• textbook
• education
• information technologies
• principles
• implementation
• European Council for Business Education.