WORKING OUT ASSIGNMENTS AS THE MAIN FORM FOR STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY FOR THE DISCIPLINE “FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE PROFESSIONAL FIELD”

Abstract

The article discusses a problem of compiling educational assignments intended for the students’ main form of activity in classes on “Foreign language in the professional field”. Based on the data obtained during the analysis of the researcher’s own pedagogical activity and the specialized literature, the author analyzes the system of the current Russian higher education. The work studies difficulties that modern students may face while learning a professionally oriented foreign language. The article touches on the topic of optimal educational methodology, which allows to reduce such factors effect to a possible minimum. Special attention is paid to defining the term “professionally oriented assignments”. The study clarifies features of those roles and the place they occupy when such methods are realized. The author also offers examples of such tasks.