The problem of selecting and structuring of educational material in english when teaching students of technical specialities

Abstract

The article deals with the scientifically substantiated methods of selecting and organizing educational material based on its didactic significance, taking into account the characteristics of perception, preservation and forgetting of educational information by students of technical specialities, the peculiarities of the educational process of higher education from the point of view of the influence of educational material on the formation of professional qualities of a future specialist. This article considers such theoretical and methodological issues of selecting and structuring of educational material in English for developing students’ educational activities in the technical university in the practice of teaching a foreign language, as well as the basic requirements for mastering the knowledge in technical subjects, like Mathematics in which the language of teaching is English. The activities of future specialists, when introducing the academic mobility, depend on the content and nature of the knowledge that higher education should provide them with. A serious reason for many disadvantages in the training of specialists is the lack of scientific substantiation for the selection of the content of education at the university. The general provisions on analysis of various options for solving this problem are given and it is estimated that the cybernetic approach is the most optimal, since it allows you to build a technology for selecting educational inaterial that ensures the continuity of learning. It is advisable to consider the presentation of the process of selection and structuring of educational material as a pedagogical technology for constructing an educational thesaurus through a description of its information-semantic structure. This approach reveals the interaction between didactic principles and parameters that characterize the semantic content of the descriptor of educational material. Analysis from the position of didactics of information-semantic structuring of educational material allows us to make a conclusion about the necessity of research in this area. The article analyzes scientists’ views on the process of selecting and structuring of educational material as a process of an educational thesaurus. The structuring of educational material depends primarily on the specifics of the subject, on the functions that the latter performs in education, and on the general idea of the construction of the content of education. Practical recommendations are provided for selecting and structuring of educational material. The approaches have been developed for structuring educational material that cannot be mechanically transferred to all academic subjects in the same completeness and a further study of the theory and methodology for selecting and structuring of educational material was proposed.