AUTHOR`S COURSE «HOT ENGLISH» FOR FUTURE MANAGERS: FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.17.4.20Keywords:
author’s course, experimental research study, future managers, high educational establishments, Hot English, metacognitive strategies in English reading comprehensionAbstract
The article deals with some questions concerning the model of the formation professionally oriented competence in English reading of future managers and with the problem of the development of strategic skills in ESP reading. The necessity of students’ mastering the above-mentioned competence has been grounded. The term “professionally oriented competence in English reading of future managers” has been defined. This model falls into the following stages: planning, inferring, hypothesis testing, revising hypotheses. The author gives a full description of the modelling. The reading skills are suggested to be developed with the help of corresponding exercises and tasks. It has been proved that pre-reading exercises aim to form strategic skills of planning; reading exercises and tasks enable students to use reading strategies of inferring and compression while postreading tasks help them to develop strategies of evaluating and correcting. The research results can be used for further studies of the problem. The principles of constructing the model of English reading competence: cyclicality, systematicity, professional orientation and stepwise learning are singled out. The stages of formation professionally oriented competence in English reading are substantiated. The means of forming foreign language competence in reading and ways of controlling its level of formation are determined. The linguistic characteristics of English financial and economic texts and psychological mechanisms of vocabulary have been determined. The linguodidactic model of developing English lexical competence of future financiers in the process of reading professionally oriented texts has been elaborated and the corresponding system of exercises has been developed. The criteria, evaluative indicators and levels of developing English reading competence of future managers in the process of reading professionally oriented texts have been defined.
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