PREPARING TO ORGANIZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK USING PROFESSION-ORIENTED BLOGGING

Abstract

Modern approaches to the organization of students’ independent work based on the use of information and communication technologies are both a promising opportunity and a challenge for education due to its ongoing digitalization. This paper attempts to describe an algorithm for the preparation to such an independent work based on students’ profession-oriented blogging in a foreign language. This algorithm can be replicated by any foreign language teacher interested in developing the professional foreign language competence of future technical university graduates and implies a number of procedures. Starting from the analysis of regulatory documentation and determining the objectives and methods of students’ independent work, it is then suggested to form an expert group for further evaluation of this independent work’s results, the structure, content and levels of the competences to be developed, to organize a pedagogical assessment of the criteria to evaluate these results, as well as to prepare the information content and think through the technical support. The results of experimental work enable us to speak of high effectiveness of the given algorithm, as it implies the focus on professional orientation of students’ independent work which most foreign language teachers find challenging.