Military university cadets intellectual and creative development during foreign language education

Abstract

Introduction. Requirements to professional training of future officer personnel able to solve professional tasks in a creative way and necessity to develop the communicative competence including the foreign language one of future military specialists in the context of intensive international cooperation highlight the search for effective teaching technologies and conditions for military university cadets' intellectual and creative development during foreign language education. At present the contradiction between the objective necessity of practice in scientific and methodical ensuring the process studied and insufficient technological elaboration in the framework of foreign language education is not solved. The problem of the research is to solve the contradiction. Materials and methods. Cadets of MESC AF "N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy" (Voronezh), the branch of MESC of the Navy "N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy" (Kaliningrad), VRI of the FPS of Russia (Voronezh) were involved into the research. The results of the theoretical and empirical materials were based on the terminology review, pedagogical observation, testing, expert assessment, qualitative and quantitative characteristics comparison, a mathematical statistics method (Pearson's χ2 test). Research result. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the statistical data showed that the authors' technology implementation through activating the mechanisms at each stage on the basis of the communicative and investigative approach which implements the principles of motivating creative activity, problem, integration, practice-orientation, reflexivity and creating of the pedagogical conditions contributes to significant increasing military university cadets' development level during foreign language education (χ2 = 23,021). Discussion and conclusion. For the first time the authors offer an effective technology and identify conditions of intellectual and creative development as a multi-component process of intellectual and creative skills improvement for a cadet's personality self-realization in the military professional activity. The developing potential of foreign language education through the culture dialogue contributes to future officer personality development as a subject of the native culture that possesses system and prognostic thinking on the basis of complex speech and thinking missions which reflect the content of professional communication.