Gender oriented program to increase motivation for learning a professionally oriented foreign language

In this article, the authors, having analyzed some of the features and difficulties associated with the professional orientation of teaching a foreign language, the authors came to the conclusion that it is necessary to develop a special psychological and pedagogical program. The authors presented a program to improve professionally oriented motivation for learning a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. One of the goals of the program was the formation of professionally-oriented motivation taking into account gender differentiation. It was found that difficulties with the formation of professionally-oriented motivation in a technical university, the existence of a complex of reasons for the demotivation of students may be the result of a focus on traditional educational approaches with the dominance of the grammatical-translation method of teaching a foreign language. The psychological and pedagogical program created by the authors includes interesting problematic tasks based on linguistic and cultural material, as well as a professional role-playing game that provides students, both boys and girls, the opportunity to try themselves as professionals. According to the results of the program aprobation, the authors note a significant decrease in stressors and anxiety among students of both genders in the process of learning a foreign language, as well as a significant increase in motivation to achieve success, which contributes to an increase in professionally-oriented motivation for learning a foreign language among students of a technical university.

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