Abstract:

The relevance of the article presented is due to the fact that the graduate of a technical school has to apply a foreign language as an instrument of communication in the context of the dialogue of cultures and civilizations in the modern informational world, possess modern value orientations, motivation and a desire for creativity and self-improvement. The scientific concept of universal values relationship of national, international and universal cultures forms theoretical and methodological basis of our work. The paper touches on the linguistic training of engineers, the axiological approach application to the foreign languages learning during the course of education in a higher technical school. In addition to the curriculum, the specific extra cultural unit for universal values assimilation includes the means of folk pedagogy developing a student’s creative interest to foreign cultural values perception and learning a foreign language. In the presented work we consider the artistic aspect of training a foreign language in a higher school on the assimilation of universal values being the world culture basis, which is provided by means of national pedagogy (proverbs, folk songs and tales, sayings, idioms, poems, rhymes, tongue twisters, limericks riddles), reflecting people's cultural traditions, moral and ethical values, their attitude to reality contributing to the interest increase in the creative language learning. National pedagogical means for training students a foreign language contained in the extra cultural unit and found in specially developed exercises, drills and assignments represent cultural peculiarities and reflect universal human values which are attached to a person in the course of his life and education. Foreign language training together with the national culture values assimilation promote the students’ bilingual and bicultural development: their abilities development to study lexical and grammatical structures in a natural way; emotional involvement in creative learning, readiness to take part in all types of communication; cognitive motivation to learn foreign languages and national cultures.

Keywords:

Extra cultural unit, means of folk pedagogy, axiological approach, the artistic aspect, creativity, interest, universal human values, proverbs, sayings, work.