Academic Communication Instruction of University Students: Competency-Based Approach.
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2018, Vol 93, Issue 2
Abstract
The research focuses on theoretical and practical issues of applying competency-based approach to teaching communication to science majors. A special emphasis is placed on developing the ability of the incoming members of the academic discourse community to function efficiently in disciplinary academic environments by means of improving their sociolinguistic skills. Research methods of analysis, synthesis, description and classification have been used to define the key terms of the study, namely ''competence'', ''competency'', ''communicative competency'' and ''academic communicative competency'' and present the structure of academic communicative competency. The latter comprises three major groups of competences: cognitive (which further includes learning, research, informational and reflective competences), proper communicative (linguistic, language and discursive competences) and adaptive (sociocultural and strategic competences). The analysis of American pedagogical literature as well as the US university programs has revealed that communication education takes place throughout the whole period of study at both undergraduate and graduate levels and can be divided into three main stages: 1) the development of general academic communicative competences; 2) the development of field-related communicative competences; 3) the development of disciplinary and research specific communicative competences. The study results demonstrate the effectiveness of the competency-based approach to teaching communication in the US universities and colleges, especially in program development and student assessment. This suggests that an appropriate adaptation of the American educational experience to Ukrainian conditions may facilitate the process of the communicative competency formation in future professionals and scientists.
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M. S. Kozolup
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