Developing students' cognitive skills and abilities in english lessons for improving their professional efficiency

Abstract

Fast-paced environment within the processes of globalization in the whole world has predetermined different social changes not only in the sphere of politics, economy, information technology and intercultural relationship among peoples, but also in the field of education in general, and Higher education in particular. Higher educational establishments have to prepare highly qualified specialists with the sufficient level of one or two foreign languages, who would be able to communicate fluently not only on the household level (private letters, small talks, chatting rooms, friendly conversations), but also in the academic environment (scientific conferences, round tables, symposia, business correspondence, etc.). That is why teachers of English are looking for more productive ways and methods of language teaching to meet the challenges of nowadays’ world. But to plan their teaching process, concerning all those requirements, we must take into account our students’ personal qualities, interests, their individual abilities to study, the level of desire to master their professional foreign language and their cognitive skills and abilities. When a student is lucky to have good cognitive skills, he can obtain new amount of information quickly and with ease, but when his cognitive skills are poor and weak, and they can’t catch the information properly, then the process of studying turns out to be for him a real suffering. But many psychologists prove, that irrespective to peoples’ age and individual learning abilities, all cognitive skills could be developed and enhanced with the correct approach to training them.