DEVELOPMENT OF MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS OF A TECHNICAL COLLEGE TO STUDY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The paper deals with developing motivations of M.Sc.Eng. and M.Eng. degree students to master English as a foreign language. As a rule, at a master degree level, engineering students are usually more concentrated on doing their research in science and pay less attention to humanities, including foreign languages. Here we show that the motivation to learning the English language can be strengthened through different techniques, including a combination of communicative and student-centered approaches, focusing on oral conversational skills and communication efficiency rather than the formal or grammar issues of the foreign language. The approach proved to be most effective with a native speaker involved in teaching and with a series of meetings with foreign professors for the students which became possible due to the university participation in different international granting programs including Fulbright and Erasmus+. Therefore, international collaborations of the university contribute to increasing the student motivations to learning the English language.