An Analysis of Proposed ESP Teaching Activities in Border Guard Automobile Transport Masters Training

The article describes the teaching activities of English for specific purposes in future border guard Automobile Transport Masters training at the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. The main attention is paid to developing of Working Curriculum anchored on the notion of “English for specific purposes” (ESP) for the educational program of the second (master’s) level of higher education on specialty 274 “Automobile Transport”. The purpose of this research is to study the ESP teaching activities in future border guard Automobile Transport Masters training. The methodology of the course is aimed at developing the border guards’ professional communicative competency, which would facilitate their effective service in the border crossing points. The course program provides border guards with the opportunity to develop language competence to communicate with foreigners while conducting border surveillance activities and border checks. The structure of this educational program takes into account the elements of the PROJECT TUNING and the categories of BLOOM TAXONOMY. The classification of the types of teaching activities of ESP in future border guard Automobile Transport Masters training has been determined and substantiated. They include five components: warm ups, vocabulary, reading, listening, grammar and speaking with their corresponding activities. The results of its implementation are the number of officers in experimental group who had high and middle levels of English language proficiency increased by 25 %; and the number of officers in control group who had high and middle levels of English language proficiency increased by 6%.