DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF UKRAINE (1955-1969)
Abstract
The article deals with the formation and development process of foreign language education in higher technical educational institutions of Ukraine during 1955–1969.
On the basis of a retrospective analysis are revealed positive trends and inhibition factors of the development of teaching foreign languages in higher technical educational institutions of Ukraine in the specified period.
At the constituent-restoring stage (1955–1969) the following positive trends were identified: the creation of foreign language classrooms; introduction of foreign language courses from 1st to 4th year in all higher technical educational institutions; inclusion of technical departments in assignments for course and diploma projects translation of foreign articles; publication of textbooks and manuals for teaching foreign languages in higher technical educational institutions; organization of optional foreign language training; increasing the number of foreign language lessons; factors inhibiting the development of foreign learning identified the following: excessive ideologization; lack of candidates or PhDs among foreign language teachers in higher technical educational institutions; the absence of a department of foreign languages at some universities; unification of curricula and impossibility of changing them; unrealistic passage of language practice abroad by students and teachers for advanced training; inability to use periodical foreign editions in a foreign language; dominance of the grammatical-translation method; lack of sufficient textbooks and training manuals.
It is proved that the constituent-restoring stage (1955–1969) is significant in the development of foreign language education in Ukraine, when the foreign language training of students in higher technical educational institutions becomes one of the priority state tasks, the solution of which is determined by a number of adopted regulations aimed at improving the preparation of students of technical specialties.
