MODEL OF FORMING STUDENTS’ RESEARCH COMPETENCIES IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Purpose. The article examines the process of forming students’ research competency in the process of teaching a foreign language at technical university as the way of improving professional education and students’ self-organization. Materials and methods. The basis of the research is the theoretical methods (methods of analysis and synthesis, generalization and systematization, projecting). The leading method of research is the method of projecting, and the main humanistic principle is multimodality to ensure students’ integrity, autonomy and subjectivity. Results. The model of forming students’ research competency has been developed in the context of personal oriented, competent oriented approaches and synergistic methodology. The article determines the main conditions for the formation of students’ research competency. The project model is revealed and the basis of forming research competency is the activity of students’ personal structures. Therefore, they are indicators of increasing the levels of research competencies in the process of teaching a foreign language. The obtained results convincingly testify to the increase in motivation to learn a foreign language, the development of the experience of research competence of students, the motivation to participate in real research projects in the research educational and cultural environment of a technical university. Students’ project activities increase the effectiveness of teaching foreign language communication, the development of research skills, the flexibility of cognitive functions, subjectivity, the formation of research experience, the formation of professional values and meanings.

Keywords

• research competencies
• professionalism
• foreign language
• project method
• multimodality
• personal structures
• technical university
• teaching a foreign language