The thesis deals with the problem of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials. The research provides theoretical substantiation and practical elaboration of the effectiveness of methodology of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials. The essence of key research concepts have been highlighted, the structure of professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking has been specified and its components (lexical knowledge, lexical abilities (receptive and reproductive), lexical awareness) have been presented. The approaches of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials has been chosen and the principles of this process have been defined. The considerable teaching potential of authentic video materials as an effective tool of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in speaking has been proved.
The content of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking that includes objective and procedural aspects has been designed. The components of objective aspect are hotel and catering sphere, types of communication, functional styles of communication, situations of professionally-oriented hotel and catering specialists’ communication, their roles, nonverbal means of communication, communicative aims and purposes, themes, problems, problem solving; language material (lexical, phonetic, grammatical), speaking material (texts, conversational formulas, communicative strategies), sociolinguistic material, learning cognitive, mnemic and compensatory strategies. The procedural aspect encompasses speaking lexical abilities and skills, exercises and assignments to develop them, knowledge how to operate communicative strategies, about culture of English conversation and communicative behaviour, abilities and skills to apply sociolinguistic material, exercises and assignments to develop them, sociolinguistic knowledge (usage of hotel and catering vocabulary, set phrases, knowledge of national and cultural semantics, linguistic markers of social contacts in the situations of professionally-oriented communication), skills to apply language material (lexis of hotel and catering), exercises to develop them.
The selection of lexical units and video records on the basis of the defined criteria has been performed. Video records as the tools of students’ immersion into the situations of professionally-oriented communication are selected according to the following criteria: authenticity, professional orientation and validity, topic reference, functional and target appropriateness, topicality, lexical density, motivational value, compliance with students’ language level, credibility and accessibility of the sources, volume, length and speed. Lexical units and terms are processed according to the criteria: professional orientation, importance, topic reference, functional and target appropriateness, frequency, combination and word building capacity.
The following stages of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials have been determined: introduction, consolidation, production. The elaborated subsystem of exercises for building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials consists of five groups and ten subgroups which correlate with the aforementioned stages.
The suggested subsystem of exercises for building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials is described and the samples of exercises from the outlined groups are presented.
The effectiveness of the developed methodology of building professionally-oriented English lexical competence in prospective hotel and catering specialists’ speaking with use of authentic video materials 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: prospective hotel and catering specialists, professionally-oriented English lexical competence in speaking, authentic video materials, lexical units, terms, situations of professionally-oriented communication, stages of teaching, subsystem of exercises.
