Foreign language competence as a component of preparation of future civil-engineers for international cooperation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of foreign language skills for the implementation of international cooperation. Nowadays international cooperation is one of the components of reformation and modernization of educational system in Ukraine that promotes its integration into the world’s educational space by means of introduction of exchange programs, mutual scientific achievements and sponsorship support. This namely helps significantly increase the quality of educational process, academic mobility and make the infrastructure more contemporary that is of great importance for the implementation of post-war country reconstruction. So, one can highlight the following directions of international cooperation: integration into European space; academic mobility; scientific cooperation.
Thus, it’s worth saying that in the implementation of international cooperation in all the above-mentioned directions the availability of foreign language skills competence plays a significant role.
As we know, foreign language competence is the basis of international cooperation that promotes the integration of Ukraine into the EU, business development, scientific exchange and legal aid. At present foreign languages knowledge is compulsory for all specialists for communication implementation on all the levels (everyday, professional, scientific etc.).
Let’s look through all the above-mentioned directions of international cooperation: 1) integration into the European space aims at the forthcoming of the Ukrainian educational standards to European. What concerns foreign languages, it is about the skills to join domestic and European methods of their learning with the purpose of mastering by future specialists the skills of four kinds of language activity (reading, writing, listening and speaking); 2) academic mobility – the exchange programs that promote learning internship abroad, for example, Erasmus +. The exchange programs are important not only for the improvement of foreign language knowledge, but also the skills of their use in educational and professional activity with the purpose of establishing the relationships with international partners for further work; 3) scientific cooperation that is aimed at carrying out and publication of mutual scientific achievements of Ukrainian and European authors. Now this direction is becoming especially actual among postgraduate and doctoral students. Carrying out the scientific research and their further coverage in international journals promotes the scientific recognition of specialists abroad and, in such a way, the implementation of international cooperation.