IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/lum/rev1rl/v11y2019i1p117-130.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Competency-Based Approach to Passing First Certificate in English

Author

Listed:
  • Ilona Ivanivna Kostikova

    (H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University)

  • Tetiana Viediernikova

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

  • Liudmyla Holubnycha

    (Professor, Department of Foreign Languages # 3, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

  • Svitlana Miasoiedova

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages # 3, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Abstract

In this article the influence of competency-based approach of foreign language teaching to successful passing First Certificate in English (FCE) has been shown and the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of this approach for students of nonlinguistic specialties has been conducted. The range of research methods (theoretical, empirical, statistical) has been used to reach the research purpose and justify the research finding. It has been confirmed that the most relevant type of a competency-based approach to teaching a foreign language for specific purposes is the communicative competency-based one. The linguistic competence, which is considered by authors to be the central multicomponent notion has been defined and characterized from the perspective of teaching English as a foreign language. The linguistic competence is based on five practical competences: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Use of English. To check the effectiveness of the applying competency-based approach of teaching foreign language (English) for specific purposes the empirical (diagnostic) methods such as: testing (oral and written), observation, discussion were used; the pedagogical experiment was also conducted with the students. Statistical methods (Student’s t-test) helped to evaluate the results of the pedagogical experiment. The t-value result ranged from 3 to 4.7 shows the difference between the sample data and the null hypothesis that is significant, which proves the statistical importance of the obtained results.

Suggested Citation

  • Ilona Ivanivna Kostikova & Tetiana Viediernikova & Liudmyla Holubnycha & Svitlana Miasoiedova, 2019. "The Competency-Based Approach to Passing First Certificate in English," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11(1), pages 117-130, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev1rl:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:117-130
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/rrem/100
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/rrem/article/view/1278
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/https://doi.org/10.18662/rrem/100?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Oksana Hrydzhuk & Tetiana Dyak & Iryna Denys, 2020. "Interdisciplinary Bonds in the Process of Learning Ukrainian and English Languages for Specific Purposes," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 12(2), pages 97-116, June.
    2. Yuliia Lushchyk & Luidmyla Pikulytska & Hanna Tsyhanok, 2020. "Core Curriculum for Foreigners’ Language Training in Higher Agrarian Institutions: Correlation with Common European Recommendations," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 12(1Sup1), pages 196-212, March.
    3. Ilona Kostikova & Liudmyla Holubnycha & Svitlana Miasoiedova & Tetiana Moroz & Anastasiia Ptushka & Iryna Avdieienko, 2020. "Perspectives on Study abroad Students through Passing FCE Test: Listening Problems," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 12(1), pages 120-134, February.
    4. Oleksandra Pavlivna Borzenko & Yana Pavlishcheva, 2019. "Non-Standard Elements at Professional English Lessons," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11(2), pages 18-37, June.
    5. Liudmyla Holubnycha & Ilona Ivanivna Kostikova & Olena Leiba & Svitlana Lobzova & Ruslan Chornovol-Tkachenko, 2019. "Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence at the Tertiary Level," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11(3), pages 245-262, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Competence; FCE exam; teaching; student; experiment;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:lum:rev1rl:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:117-130. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Antonio Sandu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/rrem/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.