Method of designing computer education as a means of improving mastering professionally-oriented english by future merchant navy personnel

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to develop a scientifically based and experimentally proven “STEP 8.0” computer program for training and monitoring testing. To achieve the intended goal, it is necessary to solve the following problems: to analyze theoretical and methodological aspects of the implementation of the intensive method of teaching foreign language to future merchant navy specialists with the prospect of obtaining effectiveness; to verify experimentally the effectiveness of the developed “STEP 8.0” computer program. In solving the tasks, the following research methods have been used: analysis of psychological, pedagogical, methodological and linguistic literature related to information and communication technologies on the research problem; observation of the process of teaching English to future navigators. The result of the research, tested experimentally, can be used by foreign languages teachers of maritime universities.

Keywords

• профессиональная деятельность в иноязычной среде
• профессиональная языковая коммуникация
• интенсивный курс обучения языку
• аудио-визуальная методика
• методика проектирования компьютерной обучающей системы
• электронный корпус текстов
• информационные единицы языка
• professional activity in a foreign language environment
• professional language communication
• intensive language training
• audio-visual technique
• design technique for a computer-based training system
• electronic text corpus
• language information units