THE FEATURES OF FOREIGN STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

• Ярослав Слуцький

  Донбаський державний коледж технологій та управління

Abstract. The article analyzes the language training program for foreign students at the University of Alabama. It was found, that the program includes certain components, the assimilation of which is directly important for the development of a person which is capable of performing a full range of interactions in the new society, namely: to read the information of a textual nature and different levels of complexity; to perform the written activities that are necessary for the expression of their own thoughts not only in the form of oral communication; the ability to perform the communication interaction with the opponent; to have the ability to understand the heard information component and interpret it in the necessary format for further interpersonal interaction. The components, which aim is the professionally oriented foreign students’ training are emphasized, but they act as auxiliary elements of the general process of linguistic training, focusing the students’ attention on the terminology that field of activity, which they chose when entering the educational institution.

Seminars that are held as a part of the foreign students’ linguistic training were identified as a component of practical learning of previously acquired theoretical knowledge.

It is noted that foreign students, before the preparatory linguistic process, perform the test tasks, the results of which are directly affect at their further distribution into groups according to the level of knowledge of previously selected components, including reading, listening etc. However, after the start of the preparatory process, the tutor or consultant of the center of cooperation with foreign students, having practically acquainted with the students’ level of knowledge, can send them for a replacement exam, which can confirm or refute the previously obtained results.

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