Artyukhova Olena, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department, Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Mykolayiv, Ukraine

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2176-5048
e-mail: elenaartyuhova@ukr.net

Gannichenko Tetiana, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department, Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Mykolayiv, Ukraine

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7597-6946
e-mail: gannichenko@mnau.edu.ua

Ihnatenko Zhanna, Lecturer of the Foreign Languages Department, Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Mykolayiv, Ukraine

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1115-1325
e-mail: zhanna.ignatenko@gmail.com

Use of Didactic Games at Foreign Language Classes in the Process of Economic Education

Introduction. The process of economic education reforming is aimed at the implementation of interactive methods learning, tools, and training methods for future professionals, in particular in the process of their foreign language training. It is an important component of both the general competence of the future specialist and the professional since the economic terminological apparatus is predominantly of English origin. Due to the need to study methods of teaching foreign languages (English) to modernize the economic education system, it is necessary to identify and expand the positive experience of applying effective teaching methods in higher education, in particular through didactic games. The relevance of the research topic is explained by the need to intensify the educational process, develop active teaching methods for professionally oriented communication in a foreign language and solve educational problems in the learning process, due to high requirements for the level of knowledge of a foreign language as a means of business communication in economic education.

The purpose of the article is to consider didactic games, their varieties, possibilities of use, and effectiveness in learning English in the process of economic education.

Results. The authors are convinced that in the process of preparing students, more attention should be paid to their needs, boldly changing traditional approaches, being able to adjust strategic education vectors to meet the requirements of the modern world. Modern scientific-pedagogical workers should inspire students to study, develop, and effectively apply the entrepreneurial abilities which are acquired in universities. Professors should formulate such learning tasks that are characterized by the real application.

Conclusion. Business games are an active and effective method of teaching professionally-oriented communication in a foreign language and a means of intensifying the educational process, which can successfully overcome the psychological and linguocultural barriers in situations of business communication in a foreign language and help to shape the professional communicative competence of future economists.

Keywords: economic education; business communication; foreign language professional competence; teaching methods; didactic game.

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