A methodology of training pilots’ listening skills by means of a computer tool is highlighted in the article. Various computer exercises are used to enhance the learners’ level of English as well as improve their listening skills. English is one of the crucial factors influencing flight safety; pilot’s ability to listen, hear, interpret and react to controller’s information in English is of paramount importance during radio communication. It is emphasized that the development of computer software and appearance of new computerized tools predetermine the search for new methods of teaching Aviation English to future pilots and air traffic controllers. One of the ways how to enhance the level of professional training is implementation of ICT in the teaching and learning process. Computer technologies and technical means of language training can simulate the flight situations that a pilot may encounter during his/her professional activity. In the article the authors demonstrate one of the useful methods – application of a computer tool for training listening skills in Aviation English. The computer tool is aimed at training pilots’ listening skills. It can be used to prepare students for achieving ICAO Operational Level (Level 4) or higher according to the ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements. It consists of six tasks based on general aviation English and phraseology of radio communication. Based on the proposed methodology the experiment with Aviation graduate students was carried out, which was based on the implementation of the computer tool into the course «Phraseology of radio communication». Listening skills’ assessment was conducted according to three criteria: cognitive (knowledge), operational (skills), psychological (abilities) and their descriptors. According to the level of listening skills three levels – low, medium and high were differentiated. The results of the experimental study indicate that there have been positive changes in the distribution of students’ levels of listening skills in the phraseology of radio communication in English with the introduction of the computer tool: the number of students with high- and medium-level of listening skills increased whereas that of low-level listening skills decreased.

Motivation plays an important role in language acquisition. The article highlights the necessity of student pilots’ motivation in learning English. The research sheds light on the underlying factors of motivation in learning aviation English. The concept “motivation” was analyzed in the article. The factors of influence on students’ motivation were grouped into three categories: how teacher’s activity influences the educational process; how students’ activity influences the educational process; how organization of the educational process influences quality of studying. The research focused on studying pilots’ motivation to learn aviation English. The participants of the experiment were 247 people, among them third- and fourth-year student pilots of the Flight Academy of the National Aviation University (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), third- and fourth-year student pilots of the Kharkiv Air Force University named after I. M. Kozhedub (Kharkiv,Ukraine), flight instructors and pilots of aviation company “URGA” (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). The reason behind this division was to test motivation, to define the key factors and motives of pilots’ motivation to learn aviation English at flight training institutions; to trace the dynamics of changes taking place in the training of students from the third to the fourth year of studying. Data were collected by giving student pilots open-ended questionnaires, which comprise 3 blocks of the underlying factors of motivation to learn aviation English. After that a statistical analysis was conducted which showed a variation in the results between the groups of respondents; it allowed to define a variety of factors influencing students’ motivation. Each factor was assessed on the 7-point evaluation scale. The number of points received for each factor was summed up and divided by the total number of respondents. The interpretation of received results has been presented in the paper.

The article deals with the problem of psycholinguistic peculiarities of the use of the American-English loans. The main task of the research is to educe the features of their assimilation by the students in the conditions of educational bilingualism. The knowledge of a foreign language can affect the perception of the loans and can distort their understanding. Speaking about the angloamericanisms, we mean, first of all, the lexical loans, transferring of words from one language into other with adaptation in the system of the language-recipient. An angloamericanism – an absolute language universal, presented by the class of the adopted lexical units that is fixed in the dictionaries of the Ukrainian language, and assimilated in its system. As an examinee the students of foreign languages and flight operations faculties were involved, as the example of the carriers of artificial bilingualism. The psycholinguistic and associative experiments are used. It contains such procedures: preselection of the newest loans, and also producing to the participants of the experiment of the list of the tasks, including the description of associations. Initial position of our experimental research is a hypothesis that the mastered enough word in an individual lexicon, firstly, is perceived as acquainted, secondly, easily enters into associative connections with other words, thirdly, does not cause large difficulties in description of its semantics. An experimental list consists of twenty-three words related to the most frequent thematic subsystems in the adopting language: business, economy, entertainments, sport and fashion. Free associative experiment provides the material for building associative fields of certain concepts, reconstruction of fragments of language and conceptual pictures of the world. The students had to define if the words acquainted or unknown; to write down an associative reaction; to explain the value of the word; to write down a sentence with the loan. The comparable analysis of results of questioning of the informants showed that the assimilation of the loans is high enough. However, the students showed large creativity in determination of semantics and in presentation of associative reactions on the loans, which testify to aspiration to show their linguistic abilities.

In the article, on the basis of the analysis of psychological and pedagogical sources, the peculiarities of the professional self-consciousness of medical professionals are revealed.The state of research of the problem of forming the professional consciousness of future medical workers is analyzed. A model of psychological and pedagogical support for the development of professional consciousness of students of higher medical education is offered.

У статті проаналізовано наукові підходи до визначення та структури соціальної та комунікативної компетентностей, запропоновано авторські визначення цих понять, а також поняття комплексної компетентності – соціально-комунікативної. Встановлено, що проблема формування соціально-комунікативної компетентності є предметом досліджень психології та педагогіки, комунікативної лінгвістики, психолінгвістики, етнолінгвістики, теорії комунікації. Дослідники вважають соціально-комунікативну компетентність однією із найважливіших для життя в соціумі. Однак на сьогодні проблема комплексного дослідження формування соціально-комунікативної компетентності у майбутніх офіцерів пенітенціарної служби у процесі вивчення гуманітарних дисциплін не вирішена повною мірою.З’ясовано, що увага до проблеми формування соціально-комунікативної компетентності майбутніх офіцерів пов’язана з низкою суспільно-політичних змін, методів управління, розширенням сфери людських контактів, швидкістю інформаційних обмінів та підвищенням ролі міжособистісної взаємодії. Важливість професійної гуманітарної підготовки майбутніх офіцерів обумовлена тим, що вони здійснюють управління персоналом пенітенціарної служби, мають справу з представниками різних світоглядів.Установлено, що формування соціально-комунікативної компетентності майбутніх офіцерів – це науково обґрунтована система організації і стимулювання пізнавальної діяльності студентів щодо якісних змін усіх компонентів їх соціально-комунікативної компетентності. На підставі наукових визначень, запропоновано авторську інтерпретацію поняття “соціально-комунікативна компетентність” – це професійно важлива властивість, що охоплює соціально-комунікативні знання, уміння, базові ціннісні орієнтації та особистісні якості, необхідні для ефективної міжособистісної взаємодії фахівців пенітенціарної служби.