The experience of project training on classes for foreign language by students of nonlinguistic specialties

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the essence of project education in the classroom in the foreign (English) language of students of nonlinguistic specialties of the university.

Design/methodology/approach

A sample of the study consisted of 20 first-year students of profile “Lawyer.” The study took place in three stages. The implementation of the training project was carried out based on the university in a group of students studying for the specialty “Lawyer.” At the organizational stage, primary diagnostics of the level of development of communicative competence through testing and communicative cases were carried out. In the second stage, the project was carried out for one semester under four topics by the thematic plan of the English language program. In the third stage, rediagnostics was carried out using testing and communicative cases following the completion of projects.

Findings

Based on the results of repeated diagnostics, a positive dynamic was revealed in the level of development of communicative skills, the development of the independent communicative activity of students at both a productive and a creative level.

Originality/value

The research shows that the inclusion of project activities in the educational process of students of the university contributes to the formation and development of information skills. These skills quite effectively fit into the educational process, carried out in the form of a workshop. And the workshop is effective at all the stages of the project activities.

Citation

Shcherbakova, I. and Ilina, M. (2021), "The experience of project training on classes for foreign language by students of nonlinguistic specialties", Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 287-299. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-02-2020-0033