Merzlyakova N.S.

Kumertau Branch of Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Orenburg State University», Russia

Profession-oriented situations in the process of the future engineer’s professional mobility formation

Globalization, activization of cross-cultural dialogue, international exchange of specialists, transfer of technical and technological ideas and open access to the specialized literature demands a professional’s mastering of those instruments, which can provide an effective level of interaction in the sphere of professional communication and joint professional activities. In such conditions professional mobility formation gets a particular importance and professional mobility represents an integrative characteristic of a personality and a mechanism of adaptation to the working conditions.

In our research we regard professional mobility in the context of polycultural education as a personality’s integrative characteristic determining a successful adaptation on the labour market and in the polycultural environment, readiness for the vertical and horizontal career development and the future engineer’s competitiveness on the base of subjectivity. According to the thesis’ logic the organizational and pedagogical conditions of the future engineer’s professional mobility formation by means of polycultural educations are:

- modeling of profession-oriented situations for the training of the engineers capable of the vertical and horizontal career development;

- professionalization of education by means of foreign languages and polycultural values; interdisciplinary interaction of linguistic and professional knowledge for the development of subjectivity resources (subjective activity, value orientations, value self-determination, and subjective experience);

- formation of motivational-and-value orientation, interest in cross-cultural interaction; realization of value orientation in the future engineer’s educational profession-oriented activity;

- the future engineer’s self-identification in the polycultural educational environment.

Let’s turn our attention to the first organizational-and-pedagogical condition of the future engineer’s professional mobility formation by means of polycultural education. A profession-oriented situation represents a system of specially designed conditions and communication participants’ relationships oriented for the communicative problem solving in the sphere of future professional activity.

Realization of this organizational-and-pedagogical condition is represented by means of individual and collective scientific research works (reports, presentations, plans) according to the profile of the future specialty or related spheres in the form of dialogues, polylogues, role games organized as improvised scientific-and-technical exhibitions, excursions to the enterprises, business trips for the experience exchange, purchase and sale of the equipment, negotiations and meetings.

So students receive an opportunity to realize themselves in the forms of engineering activity and to model the real team formation and the acceptance of corporate culture.

The modeling of profession-oriented situations promotes the development of linguistic skills in the specific technical sphere and affords to create the situation of professional communication. Students take an active position as they solve problem tasks, prove their point of view, using foreign language and this new language usage in the future professional activity becomes the basis of linguistic knowledge and skills development.

Tasks for the students are not only linguistic as their aim is to develop language skills and professional communication. And as the result the system of engineering knowledge by means of interdisciplinary relationships with technical, engineering and special disciplines is formed. Each student’s participation in the situation modeling is expressed in the variety of dialogical unities, initiative in the organized communication, emotionality of the statements, accuracy of speech, pace and volume of phrases.

In our thesis we describe the classification of the professional-oriented situations which are realized according to their difficulty and independent work of students:

- recruitment situations («Application for the job», «The job interview» represented in the oral form (dialogues) and in the written form (rules on the writing and layout of the application letter, cover letter, resume (CV);

- professional communication situations (at the enterprise, during business trips, on the phone, at the negotiations) («Arrival at the company», «Meeting new colleagues», «At the office», «Meetings», «Negotiations», «Booking a flight», «Buying a ticket», «At the airport», «Hotel reservation», «At a passport and customs desk»);

- situations connected with the presentation of the equipment and technologies («Presentation of the equipment», «Line of business», «Preparation of the conference facilities»).

A special attention in the modeling of the professional-oriented situations in the form of dialogues, monologues a special attention is paid to the cultural and language features of the foreign countries.

It is necessary to determine some rules for the successful organization of the professional-oriented situations:

- the students are offered to be the participants of the real life situations;

- the students’ role needs some adaptation because they act as themselves or as someone else;

- the students’ behaviour must suit their role and real life situations;

- participants must pay their attention on communicative usage of language units.

So the modeling of the professional-oriented situations develops students’ language and thinking activity, mental outlook and enriches the vocabulary, forms the system of knowledge and skills for the elaboration of strategy and tactics of professional communication. The professional-oriented situations promote the communicative and professional competence formation and ensure high qualification and competitiveness of the future engineers’ on the labour market.