Factors that influence organization of independent work of foreign students in the process of pre-professional training

Abstract

The article analyzes a number of the pedagogical researches, which are directly dedicated to issues of organization of independent work of foreign students or relevant to their solution. These include dissertation researches of non-domestic pedagogues (Y. Korolkova, Y. Yurova and A. Kurpesheva) as well as the researches of Ukrainian scientists (O. Rezvan, D. Porokh, Sin Shzhef, V. Oleksenko, I. Sladkykh). In the course of analytical review of these works it was found out that despite general attention drawn to the issue of organization of independent work of foreign students at the preparatory faculty (in the process of pre-professional training) and its increasing importance, it actually still remains unrevealed, especially within national pedagogy.

In the course of pedagogical observation and as a result thereof, the author of the article distinguishes and formulates three main factors of organization of independent work in the process of pre-professional training of foreign students. The first one is the habit of a foreign student to work independently, that comes from cultural and educational tradition as well as personal skills of such foreigner, its bearer. This factor becomes especially significant at the very initial stage of a foreigner’s training, i.e. at the preparatory faculty. The second factor is not only setting, but also correcting and redistributing of the tasks of individual extracurricular work between students conducted by a teacher according to types of errors that are inherent to certain contingents of foreign students (this factor turns out to be the most significant in international groups at the preparatory faculty). The third factor is technical conditions for organization and performance of particular kinds of independent work, since the lack of such conditions in the very process of studying at the preparatory faculty can play a crucial role.

In addition to this, the article also outlines the prospects for further works and researches, aimed at the development of the stated issue, in particular, the issue of semantic content, improvement and application of the most appropriate forms, development of new types of independent work for foreign students at the initial stage of studying.