ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR FOREIGN POSTGRADUATES DOING AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MASTER’S PROGRAMME REMOTELY

Abstract

The article reveals the main stages of organizing the practical training for foreign postgraduates doing the English-language educational programme in educational management remotely: organizational-adaptative, constructive-active, and final ones. The development of the content and organization of the practical training is built in accordance with the following main scientific approaches: the synergistic, competent, contextual, and wave ones. The assignments for the master’s students, described in detail in the article, make it possible to productively solve assigned educational objectives under the conditions of distance learning, link the content of the practical training with the research problems of dissertation studies performed by the master’s students, improve the ability of the students to learn English as the second language, including its professional and academic vocabulary in its practical application. The article provides the data obtained with the content analysis method from students‘ analytical reports on self-assessment of their work performed, which indicate that the assignments of the practical training in terms of their applicability are generally regarded by the students as expanding and enriching their individual professional experiences, having the potential to develop research activities, as well as having a stimulating effect on improving their English-speaking competencies.