MOTIVATION DEVELOPMENT IN VARIATIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY

The article is devoted to the problem of developing and maintaining motivation for mastering a professionally oriented foreign language at a non-linguistic University. Surveys of students show that, on the one hand, the need for a foreign language proficiency by a specialist is not in doubt, on the other hand, the motivational component of professionally oriented foreign language training is reduced, which determines the quality of training at the University. Analysis of motivation studies, external and internal motives of learning, correlation of motives and academic achievements suggests that certain conditions of educational process should be created to transform external motives into internal ones and to form personal meanings and educational values. Pedagogical research of the cultural approach shows a significant potential of ideas variety, understanding cultures ways, dialogue of cultures implementation, which determines variety and diversity of educational tasks and their implementation ways. The idea of foreign language teaching in accordance with the individual characteristics and needs of students is at the center of variative education. Variative foreign language education includes a variety of educational variants: mandatory, implementing the minimum necessary content of the foreign language discipline to meet the requirements of educational standards, and additional variants designed for the organization of students’ self-work and aimed at individual foreign language speech activity skills and abilities development. The freedom to choose an additional variant based on own needs, is a way to develop motives, because it involves in educational activities, gives personal significance, and actualizes students’ creative abilities. Methodological support for the development of additional variants serves as an effective tool that helps to understand the result, plan, organize and control self-educational work.

higher school, foreign language training, motivation, motives, cultural approach, variativity, educational variants, individualization, information technology, methodological support.

Timkina Yu. Yu. Motivation development in variative foreign language training at the university. Business. Education. Law, 2020, no. 2, pp. 368–372. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2020.51.224.