English as a Key Component of Education in Technical Universities
Keywords:
global workforce, cognitive abilities, English for specific purposes, predominant language, collaborative learning environments, communication skills, technical curricula.Abstract
In modern era of globalization and world economic integration in many spheres of human activity, the question of the need to have a single language code for specialists in different professions has become of great importance. This need is especially acute in the field of engineering, since it is engineers who are primarily involved in scientific and technological progress and changes in technological structures. The current situation in teaching a foreign (English) language in technical universities helped us formulate the goal of this study, namely, to develop a holistic and continuous content of a foreign language training program for engineers, regardless of their nationality, that fully takes into account the specifics of engineering activity and develops strong foreign language communication skills in professionally oriented environment. In the final stages of foreign language learning within the ESP approach, students are introduced to the basics of English for technical purposes, its key technical terminology and some registers of technical sphere communication.
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