DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE FORMULA-STUDENT PROJECT

Abstract

This article is devoted to determining the stages of the implementation of an additional educational program designed to train the participants of the Formula Student project, with the aim of forming their foreign language communicative competence.

Particular attention is paid to the definition of the goals and content of the training, which made it possible to draw up a curriculum for the course. So, in the process of training under this program, attention is paid to the development of lexical and grammatical skills, that is, receptive and reproductive skills of adequate use of commonly used vocabulary and grammatical models, including terminological vocabulary. The development of grammar skills involves the formation of reproductive grammar skills of structuring oral utterance in the form of a presentation.

The article highlights the main approaches to the development of educational and methodological support necessary for the implementation of an additional course in English. In order to achieve good results in completing an additional course within the framework of the developed technology, the scope of the English language by the students, the types of activities they perform in this field, the type of organization, the need for using the English language were determined. The international competition "Formula Student" is largely consistent with international organizations whose activities are fully carried out in English in a foreign language environment. The set of training tasks was specified and minimized, which was reflected in the article.