THE SYSTEM OF EXERCISES FOR THE FORMATION OF PRAGMA-PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF IT SPECIALISTS

Abstract

The article analyzes a system of exercises designed to form IT speciality students' pragma-professional communicative competence. Article was focused on the system of exercises to form IT speciality students’ pragma-professional communicative competence in foreign language education. The following  system of exercises were mentioned such as communicative-conceptual type, analytical-predictive type, pragma-actualization type, situational-conditional type, situational modeling type exercises. The exercises were given to IT students for 4 weeks and a questionnaire was taken to be aware of their beliefs and attitudes towards given exercises. Majority of the students’ responses were positive and it can be concluded that the system of exercises significantly helped IT students. Currently, professional training of IT specialists in foreign language education is also significant.  Thus, we are offering a new competence which contains: professional, functional, language, communicative competences in it. This competence is called pragma-professional communicative competence.  The author proposes the system of exercises on the basis of the methodology for the formation of pragma-professional communicative competence of IT speciality students. As a result, majority of the students mentioned that communicative conceptual type of exercises helped them to develop their metalanguage and terms in IT. Whereas the other half of the students claimed that they liked situational modeling tasks while developing various language functions in their sphere. Overall, IT speciality students had a positive attitude towards the implemented methodology and model.