Content Peculiarities of Bachelors’ in English Language and Literature Training at Universities of Switzerland Confederation

• Authors: Lilia Baranovska , Alla Zasluzhena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the content-analysis of peculiarities of Bachelors’ in the English language and literature training at Swiss universities. It has been revealed that domestic scientists have not paid special attention to this problem as the issues of future teachers’ training and future foreign languages teachers’ training in foreign universities, in particular in Germany, USA, Finland, Mexico, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan have been more studied. The study of curricula at Swiss universities under conditions of credit-modular organization of educational process, which affects the structure of the content, choice of forms and methods of teaching and assessing students' academic achievements has allowed us to conclude that the student learning is based on the multicultural, competent and communicative approaches. English language learning in the context of general linguistic picture of the world, its style and dialect importance is content particularity of this training. The communicative aspect of English study by Bachelors first appears in content acquirement of subjects “Exploring Sociolinguistics”, “Sociophonetics”. English is taught in the context of its understanding as a means of interaction under conditions of educational and cultural integration of the nations and a means of constructive polylogue in the country, that represents multicultural vector of bachelors’ training in philology. The experience of Swiss universities can be adopted by native universities to create a multicultural and communicative personality of a future philologist.

Keywords

EN

training content; BA in English Language and Literature; university; Bachelor in Philology; integrated specialist; methodological approaches; Switzerland

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46-51

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-03-13

Contributors

author

Lilia Baranovska

• National Aviation University, Ukraine

author

Alla Zasluzhena

• National Aviation University, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2015-0020