Using Foreign Languages for Career Guidance and University Promotion // Moderní aspekty vědy

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the career guidance work at the faculty of International Economic Relations and Information Technologies at Lviv University of Тrade and Economics. All activities were held using English as a language of teaching and communication between the teacher, the university students and the high school students. The study concludes that in order to form school-leavers’ professional self-determination, it is required to develop and improve a system of broad interaction between schools, universities, higher educational establishments, families, businesses, which are supposed to actively cooperate in terms of scientific and practical activities. Such cooperation contributes to the achievement of the expected results evidenced by the formation of personally meaningful choice of profession, a certain professional orientation, professional self-determination of students, their willingness to change professional orientation, reorientation to related professions, other activities according to their individual characteristics and professional selection results. Career guidance activities in English or any other foreign language spoken by the involved participants highly contributes to admissions boosting and university promotion.