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Students’ individual creative work as a component of vocational foreign language competence formation

        

The problem of students’ individual creative work as a component of vocational foreign language competence formation is considered as a part of training in the study of a foreign language, its focus on the formation of general cultural and professional competencies for more successful vocational training of graduates.

The Department under consideration (“SPO”) works on the basis of the Taganrog Institute of Management and Economics as a subsystem in the "Institute" system. The objectives of the SPO system are set by the standards of secondary vocational education in accordance with the codifier of the content elements of the discipline "foreign language" from the number of humanitarian disciplines of the federal component. At the same time, serious emphasis is placed on the organization of students’ individual creative work. It is supposed that the organization of students’ individual creative work at non-linguistic higher schools should be aimed at improving the quality of teaching a foreign language and developing professionally significant personal qualities: creativity, self-organization, responsibility and cognitive activity.

Theoretical background to the analysis of this problem was the personal-activity approach to learning process laid by B.G. Ananyev, L.S. Vygotsky, A.N. Leontyev, S.L. Rubinstein. The affirmation concerning the relationship between activity and personal development is analyzed in the studies of V.V. Davydova, G.I. Shchukina and others.

The basic concepts of students’ self-organized training activity are presented in scientific works, and there are various approaches to this concept (I.A. Zimnya, I.Y. Lerner, M.I. Mahmutov, E.I. Passov, etc.). Considering students’ individual creative work as a pedagogical system from the point of a systematic approach, we present it in the form of a complex (due to a variety of elements), probabilistic (due to ambiguity of behavior), open (due to information penetration) highly dynamic system [2]. Based on the five-component skill structure proposed by N. V. Kuzmina, we consider it as "a specific kind of a theoretical and applied self - activity, carried out under the teacher’s control. The result of this activity is supposed to be either a new scientific knowledge or a product in general, or it might be a new product aimed at the development of the students' professional, creative and personal qualities, the formation of the necessary cognitive, design, constructive, communicative and organizational components.

In accordance with the above mentioned problems, there is a target set for the entire period of study, the structural cycles of training, the content of training, the methods of work, and the means of pedagogical communication are also defined. This approach helps to solve the problem of continuity, as it stimulates students to acquire new knowledge, leading them to the world of scientific knowledge in the field of their future professional activity. Particular attention is drawn to the necessity to educate the ability to self-organization, high self-awareness, self-reliance, the combination of independence of thinking and social responsibility at the same time. From this approach to the problem under consideration, the main goal is the formation of the personality as an active subject of educational activity, his/her comprehensive preparation for the continuous process of education, self-development and self-improvement. Thus, the teacher's task is not only to transfer the amount of his/her own knowledge to the students, but to form their self-organization skills so that they could be able to acquire knowledge themselves.

Taking into account the vocational foreign language competence formation

process and the students age, their language training is carried out through:

- inclusion of elements of the individual creative work in the training sessions;

- writing creative works possessing some elements of a research work;

 - students’ participation  in the development of a specific problem under the teacher’s control;

- students’  participation in optional  forms of education, club activities;

- students’ participation in competitions, scientific seminars, conferences, in research works;

- students’  participation in innovative exhibitions,

- students’ participation in special parties held in foreign languages.

Improvement of students' self-activity presupposes the control of their cognitive activity and the teacher’s and trainees’ joint creative work, which is carried out through a properly organized communication system and which depends to a large extent on each participant of the educational process. To control this activity there are two organizational possibilities: direct impact -  when you organize joint classroom work and indirect – when you organize students’ self-done work.

Thus, students’ individual creative work is one of the forms of the educational process, in which the combination of learning and practice is most successfully combined. Moreover, competence-based approach is intended to bridge the gap between secondary and higher education.

While carrying out individual creative work the student first acquires the research skills, then begins to translate the acquired theoretical knowledge into research and at the end of this long process he/she is possible to participate in scientific conferences, symposiums at different levels, including international ones.

Ëèòåðàòóðà:

1. European Language Portfolio. Proposals for development – Council of Europe.

Strasburg, February, 1997.

2. Kuzmina N.V. "Methods of systematic pedagogical research", Textbook. Leningrad: Leningrad State University, 1980 

3. Kulikova L. M., Kulikov L.M. Students’ research competencies formation during practical training.  Pedagogical-psychological and medico-biological

problems of physical culture and sports, No1(30) 2014 ISSN 2070 47 , - 52 -

UDC 378. 1 DOI 10.14526/00_1111_09