PREPARATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE GRADUATES TO TEACH ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT THE ACADEMIC LEVEL
PREPARATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE GRADUATES TO TEACH ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT THE ACADEMIC LEVEL

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: In contemporary educational, social and professional realities the knowledgeof general English is insufficient for effective communication. Thus, foreign language teachershave to obtain a great deal of competences allowing them for teaching languages, including thecompetence to teach language for specific purposes.Research Aim: The objective of the article consists in analysing the degree to which foreignlanguage teachers are prepared to teach English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in educational in-stitutions at the academic level.Method: The study used the method of the analysis of documents.Results: The graduates of philology are not sufficiently prepared to teach ESP, while graduates ofapplied linguistics are to a greater degree prepared to undertake such tasks. The main problemwith teaching ESP concerns however, lack of the appropriate didactic materials. Thus, foreignlanguage teachers are left with no other choice than to create their own materials, apply creativeteaching methods, or to search for the materials loosely connected with a given discipline.Conclusions: The practical solutions to the problem depicted in the article are suggested, andthey are as follows: incorporation of “specialist foreign language methodology” into academiccurricula, organisation of courses from a specific field for foreign language teachers, resear-ching the scale of the problem, mutual exchange of experience and materials between the te-achers, improvement of the hitherto created coursebooks and materials with account taken ofthe communicative approach towards language learning, creation of specialist coursebooks.

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