Педагогические науки / 2. Проблемы подготовки специалистов

Egorov A.I., Privalov A.N., Romanov V.A.

Tula Leo Tolstoy State Pedagogical University, Russia

 

Psychological and Pedagogical Requirements for Successful English language Teaching of University Bachelors

Present-day stage of national education reforms faces the obvious tendency for upward drift of requirements to academic improvement which is considered inseparable from creating necessary conditions for harmonious realization of person’s capabilities and demands. Viewing bachelor training in modern University as an integral part of general educational system makes it possible to investigate it on the basis of humanism which aims at complete development of a person’s capabilities, realization of their right to adequate education as a whole pedagogical phenomenon. This phenomenon includes not only target-oriented, content-related, processional, logical, material-and-technical constituents but also a psychological and pedagogical side.

Implementation of students’ personal demands assumes the organization of teaching process in such a way that guarantees their acquisition of syllabus in the scope predetermined by the National Educational Standard. 

As it is clear from our personal experience the enhancement of bachelors training process requires the development of a special complex of scientifically proven methods (devises, techniques), forms and means which will cultivate students’ creative activity and self-sufficiency in acquisition of knowledge,  formation of competence, skills and facilities, as well as the ability to apply this complex in their future practical  activity. The process of bachelor training at the profile departments of modern Universities enable to achieve at least two important didactic tasks: development of substantial professional competence, knowledge, skills and facilities as well as mastering students’ abilities to implement these qualities in their future practical professional activity.

Handling the tasks of bachelors’ professional training lays special significance on development and implementation in educational process certain psychological and pedagogical environment (for their perfection on the basis of intensification). Taking into account our own practical experience as well as experience of other modern educationalists in this field we may state that “psychological and pedagogical environment could be understood as the content-oriented characteristics of the components constituting the educational system” to which we can add from our experience “and development of the educational process that is aimed at realization of certain didactic tasks in the framework of multilayer system of qualifications “bachelor – specialist – master”.

Some of the main elements of the psychological and pedagogical environment may be specified as following:

·        Evaluation of essential level of bachelors’ professional training in different academic subjects as the necessary basis for successful acquisition of the content knowledge and its integration in general and special disciplines of the course; interdisciplinary connections are determined on the basis of structural and logical schemes and network planning;

·        Student-centred organization of content knowledge with due regard to the University profile and determination of the basic social and professional factors of a graduate; 

·        Development and application of the pattern of student's professional training and future activity by the University’s profile departments;

·        Specification of scientifically proven norms of time consumption for academic assignments and the choice of forms and methods of instruction with account of the course of training, type of educational institution and the conditions of professional training;

·        Intensification of the pedagogical process at the profile departments  on the basis of the complex application of the intensive systems of training;

·        Determination of the optimal amount of assignments and exercises aimed at the development of competence, acquisition of special skills and techniques in accordance with the perspective professional activity and the development of the students’ cognitive interests in the system of multilayer training, etc. 

The enhancement of teaching and learning process cannot be realized without theoretical foundation of psychological and pedagogical environment, because the definition of content knowledge in educational institutions, to our mind, can be based only on the methodological foundations developed for modern school by  pedagogical science, with due regard to the fact that the definition of content knowledge in Higher Professional Institutions is a multisided and multilayer process. 

Taking all the aforesaid into cosideration we may come to the following conclusion:  definition of the psychological and pedagogical environment for bachelors training needs scientific approach which, eventually, will guarantee the success of the training and will provide professional qualification for intended purpose. Introduction of the proper psychological and pedagogical environment will ensure the students’ inoffensive revitalizing of learning activity that will result in their successful achievement of the required goals in the system of multilayer professional training.

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