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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 21, 2017
IInd International Innovative Mining Symposium (Devoted to Russian Federation Year of Environment)
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Article Number | 04012 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Mining Regions’ Sustainable Development | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20172104012 | |
Published online | 10 November 2017 |
Mastering Foreign Language Competence of Ecology and Environment Managers for Mining Industry of Kuzbass
Kemerovo State University, Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Mediacommunications, Department of Foreign Languages, 650000, 6 Krasnaya st., Kemerovo, Russia
* Corresponding author: greenwald.ru@rambler.ru
The necessity to solve nature conservation problems of Kuzbass mining industry demands from postgraduate education institutions to train highly qualified specialists in ecology and environment management. As 21st century education is competence-based one, the article clarifies the concept of competence in education, focuses on key competences, namely foreign language competence and its relevance for specialists in ecology and environment management. Foreign language competence is acquired through the course of “Foreign Language” discipline which covers the following aspects: academic reading, academic writing and public speaking. The article also describes the experience of organizing students' individual work taking into account their motivation and specific conditions of the discipline as well. Thus, both the content of the discipline and the approach to organize students' learning contribute to mastering foreign language competence of ecology and environment managers as inherent condition of their professional efficiency for solving ecological problems of mining industry in Kuzbass region.
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