THEORETICAL BACKGROUND FOR THE CREATION AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF MODULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING OF STUDENTS OF A TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

In modern conditions of expansion of international relations, scientific and technical cooperation, opportunities for internships abroad, work with technical documentation in a foreign language requires a high level of foreign language training of students studying in technical universities. Foreign language communicative competence becomes an integral part of the general professional competence of students of technical universities and provides an opportunity for future graduates to reach the international level of communication with professionals from other countries. There are various technologies used in foreign language training of students, but special attention should be paid to modular technology, which allows to present all learning in the form of a set of individual content blocks with specific competencies, organizational forms. The purpose of the article is to review and analyze the theoretical background and conditions for the use of modular technology of foreign language training of students of technical universities. Methodological and general theoretical basis of the study were domestic and foreign theories, concepts that reflect modern pedagogical and psychological theories of vocational education, scientific works of domestic and foreign authors on teaching foreign languages, problems of foreign language training of students, which reveals: ideas of philosophy of professional activity, basics of psychological theory of activity and methodological approaches to the organization of the educational process. The theoretical significance of the article is as follows: the concept of «foreign language communicative competence» in terms of its structure and content; it is substantiated that the model of modular technology of foreign language training of students of technical high school develops ideas of competence-oriented education, allows to design goals, content, technologies that provide qualitatively new foreign language training, adequate to modern society requirements. The above allows us to conclude that the technology of modular learning is not just a pedagogical technology used in teaching foreign languages, but a necessary condition for mastering a foreign language culture by creating favorable conditions for the development of future engineers as cultural and linguistic people with highly developed communication and cultural skills in solving communicative tasks.