THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING WHILE SOLVING PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED TASKS AT THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the issue of the development of professionally adapted foreign language proficiency among the students of engineering specialties in the process of learning different types of language activities. In the process of gradual learning of oral types of language activities focused on professionally specific literature the formation of critical thinking in the modeling and solving of professionally-oriented problem situations are analyzed. The researches of psychophysiological basis of the foreign language utterance mechanism in psycholinguistic sense have been examined; it explains the notion of skills and abilities as the means of language automated operations with phonetic, grammar and vocabulary materials. In order to develop analytical and scientific approaches to the material learning the method of critical thinking development based on the creative cooperation of teacher and students has been suggested. The interactive forms of work that are considered to be effective in the process of modeling the situations of professional problems for the engineering specialists have been explained.