PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT: CONCEPT, STRUCTURE, DEVELOPMENTAL SPECIFICS

Abstract

The use of competence-based approach in higher technical education demands a certain degree of precision from teachers and researchers when building a structure of a competence. This paper explores foreign language training in a technical university. It discusses the specifics of a concept of competence in the context of a technical university taking into account its qualimetric nature, the ability to measure the results of its development. Also, the concept, structure and developmental specifics of a complex, professional language competence relevant for technical universities are presented. Based on the literature review and the use of method of group expert assessment, the structure of professional language competence for a technical university student is identified. It consists of three its most significant components: communicative, cognitive and domain-specific. With that, the domain-specific component implies two individual educational trajectories which correspond to the needs of future graduates. The presented structure lays the foundation of a pedagogical model and technology developed by the author and can be used for other pedagogical solutions and experiments.