The ESP teaching and learning at the military academies in Ukraine: Psychological and sociocultural aspects

Authors

  • Oleksandr Lahodynskyi

    Foreign Languages Department, Yevheniy Bereznyak Military Academy
  • Olena Schcherbyna

    Foreign Languages Department, Yevheniy Bereznyak Military Academy
  • Volodymyr Borynskyi

    Foreign Languages Department, Yevheniy Bereznyak Military Academy
  • Ihor Bloshchynskyi

    Foreign Languages Department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
  • Alina Zinchenko

    Foreign Languages Department, Yevheniy Bereznyak Military Academy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59400/fls.v5i3.1956

Abstract

The article deals with the psychological and sociocultural aspects of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching and learning at the military academies in Ukraine. Considering the high-risk environment, the cadets will serve in after commission, it offers ways of using emotional means to facilitate the ESP learning as well as to keep up their motivation and will in order to develop appropriate abilities to perform professional functions in such hard conditions. The article proposes a range of exercises and activities at each ESP lesson stage (Introduction, Presentation, Practice, Application, Verification, and Conclusion) and develops the strategies contributing to cadets' learning motivation. The article also provides activities and actions for the teachers, which will help them to properly organize and conduct ESP courses for the military developing cadets as 'secondary communicative personalities' based on the military culture of the English-speaking countries. Both the psychological and sociocultural aspects of ESP teaching and learning are analyzed with the aim of improving cadets' professional training.

Keywords:

the ESP teaching and learning, cadets, military academies, exercises and activities, interpersonal communication, NATO STANAG 6001, military culture

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Vol. 5 , Iss. 3 (December 2023)

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