The formation of educational environment in foreign language training of energy engineering students by means of project technology

Abstract

The article deals with the results of experimental work concerning the educational environment formation that is focused on the foreign language training of future energy engineering students. Project learning technology is chosen as the means of formation. A model of the educational environment for the metalanguage studying of the speciality of energy engineering students has been developed. In the educational process, educational projects with elements of professional orientation were implemented in accordance with the subject of the discipline “Business Foreign Language”, and the language abilities and internal potential of students were taken into account. The preparedness of energy engineering students to integrate knowledge of professionally oriented disciplines into a foreign language environment for solving project tasks of communicative nature has been determined. According to the results of the pedagogical experiment, it was established that in the process of project activity the mastering level of lexical and speech competences as the components of foreign language competence of students has significantly increased. The developed educational environment is characterized by differentiation, individuality, independence, autonomy, informativeness, creativity, which allows to create the necessary conditions for successful learning of foreign language, development of creative thinking, communicative skills of energy engineering students, formation of foreign, communicative, professional, informational, project, research competencies.