Resumen de Socio-cultural competence in foreign language training of future aviation specialists
Serhii Radul, Liliia Kharlamova, Maryna Lomakina, Liliia Zelenska, Svitlana Tymchenko
Purpose is an empirical study of the content parameters of socio-cultural competence in foreign language training of future aviation specialists at the stage of their training in a higher educational institution. The research was conducted in the form of ascertaining experiment with a comparison of the content parameters formation. Valid standardized methods, purposeful observation, reliability coefficients are applied. It is established and proved that effective foreign language training of future aviation specialists promotes ethnic (first year of study M = 25.01; third year of study M = 31.56) and social tolerance (first year of study M = 28.12; third year of study M = 32.45). They are key ones in the formation of socio-cultural competence. Differences in the formation of key research parameters of socio-cultural competence of respondents of the first and third years of study (t=2.2–5.1; р<.05; р<.01) were designated. It is substantiated that foreign language training of future aviation specialists in the context of socio-cultural competence formation has axiological and praxeological orientations. It is generalized that the obtained scientific facts are essential. It is expedient to operationalize and implement them in the educational process of foreign language training of future aviation specialists.
