Barsuk S. Pedagogical conditions of formation of foreign professional communicative skills of future navigators based on Communicative and Cognitive approaches

The thesis focuses on the problem of determining the pedagogical conditions needed to develop foreign professional communication skills of future navigators based on Communicative and Cognitive, Competence-based and Reflexing approaches. The content of the learning process is built on didactic (student's autonomy, active learning, learning in system, multiple intelligences involvement, professional subjects integrated learning) and methodological principles (content-based learning, functional and integrated learning) has been structured. The major professional peculiarities of studying English and future navigator's typical professional communication skills have been described. The formation of professional communication skills based on the main principles of Communicative and Cognitive approaches is regarded as the development of dialogic speech skills through students' active verbal interaction while performing professional-based scenarios. In the thesis foreign language professional dialogic speech is defined as a responsive speech act that occurs in particular professional situations and aimed to interact with an addresser; which is organized in accordance with the rules of official speech and the positions the interlocutors occupy. Practical importance of the obtained results lie in the creating: the training course "Learning Maritime English in Interaction" and the author's coursebook "Communication in Dialogues" for teaching future navigators Maritime English. Key words: professional dialogic speech skills, Maritime English, future navigators, professional dialogues, cognitive, communicative and responsive strategies, pedagogical conditions.