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Project Description
The project is devoted to
the development of a modular English teaching course for technical
universities. It is designed on the Bologna process principles. As
the result of this project students and technical teachers in
Russian Universities can acquire the necessary level of foreign
language communicative competence for professional communication.
The special foreign language modular course ILAN - is designed for
teaching English for master students, postgraduate students, young
teachers of technical disciplines, administrative staff members
involved in the process of organization of international contacts,
retraining and up-dating of skills for foreign language teachers.
One of the objectives of the ILAN course is working out and
implementation of multimedia elements for the course. Pilot
trainings of master students, postgraduate students, technical
teachers and administrative staff at different levels of ILAN-course
will give the possibility of feedback.
The modular ILAN course is considered to be an additional educational
program and an element of life-long learning of technical
specialists. On condition of getting positive results some modules
of it or the whole course can be integrated in the compulsory
foreign language course for master students or postgraduate students.
The whole course will be included in the curriculum of the Centres
of Engineering Pedagogy.
The implementation of the ILAN course and higher level of the
communicative competence of the above mentioned groups of learners
will contribute:
- at the regional level to the improvement of the system of foreign
language training and quality of teaching by the dissemination of
the outcomes of the project;
- at the national level to the improvement of engineering education
system of Russia;
- at the international level to the deepening of integration of
Russian and European technical Universities.
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