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Shandra N. Building Prospective IT Specialists’ English Lexical Competence in Professionally-Oriented Written Communication Within Master’s Programme. Manuscript.
Thesis for a Candidate Degree in Pedagogical Studies, Specialty 13.00.02. – Theory and Methods of Teaching (Germanic Languages). Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ministry of Education and Science. Ternopil, 2019.
The thesis deals with problem of building English lexical competence in prospective IT specialists’ professionally-oriented written communication. The issues of building English lexical competence in prospective IT specialists’ professionally-oriented written communication in modern studies have been examined; the theoretical and methodological foundations of building English lexical competence professionally-oriented written communication of prospective IT specialists have been defined. The structure of building English lexical competence professionally-oriented written communication of prospective IT specialists has been specified and its components (lexical knowledge, receptive and productive lexical skills, lexical awareness, declarative and procedural knowledge of writing, writing skills and abilities, compensatory skills) have been highlighted.
The immersion of students into the situation of professional written communication is realized by the means of problem solving, brainstorming, “share and win”. The effective use of problem solving requires the skills of learning time management and eliminations of distracters. The approaches to ensure methodological validation of building English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication of IT prospective specialists are the following ones: competence, communicative and cognitive, communicative and activity-based, socio-cognitive, personality-oriented and integrated ones.
The process is grounded on the learning principles, namely initiative, firmness, reliance on lexical rules, variation, immersion into communicative situations of professionally-oriented written communication.
The content of building IT prospective specialists’ English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication that includes objective and procedural aspects has been grounded. The components of objective aspects are linguo-pragmatic features of IT specialists’ written discourse, fields, kinds and functions of IT written communication, communicative aims and purposes, lexical knowledge of written form of a word, semantics, ability to have synonyms, antonyms, homonyms etc., stylistic and socio-linguistic connotations, syntactic and lexical combinatory, word formation, types of dictionaries, declarative knowledge of writing. topics, texts, lexical and grammatical material. The procedural aspect is represented by receptive and productive lexical skills, lexical awareness, procedural knowledge of writing, compensatory abilities.
Professionally-oriented written texts and lexical units defined as selection units are processed according to the following criteria: authenticity, structural and stylistic reference, compliance with dominant communicative situations and genres of IT specialists’ professionally-oriented written communication, credibility of sources.
The following stages of building English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication of IT prospective specialists have been determined: receptive, receptive and reproductive, productive ones. The elaborated subsystem of exercises for building English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication of prospective IT specialists consists of three groups and six subgroups which correlate with the aforementioned stages. The suggested subsystem of exercises for building prospective IT specialists’ English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication is described and the samples of exercises from the outlined groups are presented. The algorithm of collaborative preparation of a written product has been elaborated and suggested.
The effectiveness of the developed methodology of building English lexical competence in professionally-oriented written communication of prospective IT specialists has been proved and validated experimentally. Based on theoretical study and the findings resulted from the experimental validation, the recommendations for English language teachers have been compiled.
Key words: English lexical competence, professionally-oriented written communication, IT specialists, content of building a competence, selection of material, subsystem of exercises, algorithm of collaborative preparation of a written product, methodological experiment.
