English Language Competence of Future Engineers: From Federal State Educational Standard to Tomsk Polytechnic University Best Practices

Abstract

Engineering education is one of Russia's

Verification of the System of Forming Future Engineers’ Integrative Readiness for Professional Activities

“…Nemirovich a professional foreign language is a part of a professional competence of a future specialist and stages of its formation are connected with performance of educational and professional tasks by non-linguistic major students [9]. Other researchers study the introduction of vocation-oriented foreign language teaching for technical major students [7,12,15]. Many other scientists also try to introduce such ideas into the educational process as: profession related translation [3,10,13]; making presentations in English [1,14]; use of social media and online resources [5,11] and so on.…”

Professional English for Engineering Students: Relevance and Importance of the Course

“…Professional standards of engineering majors identify the knowledge of English among necessary skills and abilities related to different job functions [13]. Still to be more precise we need to find out the situation as it is in reality, that is, what university professors think about English being used for in engineering and technical studies.…”

“…The authors are sure that the adaptation of a basic educational program to professional standards should be conducted in a different direction. Thus, a careful analysis of requested job functions, skills, knowledge along with the situation of adaptation of educational programmes for professional standards leads to the conclusion that we need to work on one particular specific programme depending on a major of students in order to manage the gap between the sphere of education and real requirements for a professional activity [13].…”

“…When some scientists talk about the ability to perform a job function, they mean the professional competence which is understood by a skill that is needed in a particular job or for a particular task. Thus, we need to study the topic of professional competence as a necessary condition for the successful performance of job functions [4,8,13]. If we find out the nature of a professional competence and identify its key components and aspects, we could acquire necessary skills that would be enough to perform a job function successfully [36].…”

“…From the point of view of different scientists, the term professionalism is connected with the term competence. One of the components of professionalism is professional competence which is a combination of personal qualities and good training [13].…”