ESP STUDENTS′ SELF-STUDY

ESP students’ self-study is an important problem of modern education and methodology of teaching foreign languages. The author introduces requirements necessary for improving effective ESP students self-study activity , shares some experience of using original movies and e-textbooks as a means of ESP students self-study work and presents various types of self-study tasks for students. According to the state educational standards of higher education a modern specialist should do self-study, using modern educational and information technologies, understand the diversity of social, cultural, ethnic, religious values ​​and differences, know ways and means of cultural communication. The main goal of our study is to create the concept of ESP students’ self-study work. Achieving this we can accomplish a number of pedagogical tasks. The conclusions are proved by numerous examples. We would like to emphasize that using original movies is very important for this purpose. It is also necessary to create electronic course -books based on technical vocabulary and cross-cultural material.

ESP, students’ self-study, e-textbook, authentic movie