MOTIVATION OF A MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS FOR MASTERING SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Higher education reform in Ukraine involves a thorough, informed and systematic study of foreign languages in higher education, including the professional field. This allows the future specialists to receive the necessary foreign-language professional information and communicate in a scientific environment. Practice shows that masters of higher technical education do not always have enough motivation for mastering the knowledge and skills in foreign-language academic communication. The purpose of the article is to summarize psychological and pedagogical approaches using pedagogical technologies to motivate masters of technical specialities to academic foreign language communication. The methods of research are analysis, generalization, systematization and concretization. The article reveals the specifics of foreign-language scientific communication: this is not only a specific scientific environment but also the knowledge of scientific terminology, the ability to use it, the ability to exchange views, justify the position and prove it, the ability to listen and focus on meaningful information. It is noted that the basis of the didactic system of master’s education should be an andragogical approach that is, taking into account the peculiarities of adult education, in particular, that their internal motivators prevail over external ones. The possibilities of using modern pedagogical technologies and psychological and pedagogical approaches to motivate master’s degree students of technical specialities to form language knowledge and speech competencies necessary for effective communication in the academic scientific space are revealed. In particular, it is determined that the effective motivators of adult education are their goals and claims and the forms of organizing educational activities, methods and technologies, such as group learning technologies, problematic learning technologies, the use of interactive technologies, distance learning technologies. It is promising to study the peculiarities of implementation the individual features of master’s degree students of technical specialities in mastering knowledge and competencies for foreign-language scientific communication in the scientific space.