Methodology for Ihe Professional Speech Competence Formation of the Students of Higher Education Institutions of Physical Culture and Sports

Abstract

The article substantiates a methodology for the professional speech competence formation of the students of higher education institutions of physical culture and sports and its efficiency. The study, which was conducted in 2018-2020, involved 118 students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports of Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. The professional speech competence of the students of an experimental group (n=69) was formed on the basis of the original methodology in the learning process; the students of a control group (n=49) were studying according to the existing curriculum at a higher education institution. The original methodology deepened students' knowledge of not only basic educational component but also basic speech concepts, improved their spelling and orthoepic skills, introduced the basics of rhetorical skills, professional communication culture, and professional ethics, provided mastery of terminology in physical culture and sports, pedagogy and psychology of communication, provided the development of the skills in self-control over one's own speech. The results of the pedagogical experiment proved the efficiency of the proposed methodology: 13.1 % of the experimental group students gained a high level of professional speech competence, 24.6 % - a sufficient level, 50.7 % - medium, and 11.6 % - low. In the control group, 4.1 % of students were identified to gain a high level of competence, 16.3 % - a sufficient level, 55.1 % - medium, and 24.5 % - low. The students of the experimental group demonstrated better mastery of all the types of speech activity and the norms of the Ukrainian literary language, which indicated the formation of professional speech competence.