CASE STUDY METHOD HAS BEEN SO WIDELY USED BY UNIVERSITIES, WHICH TEND TO COMBINE THIS METHOD WITH TRADITIONAL LECTURE FORMAT

The article aims at analyzing the educational process, modern
methods of teaching a foreign language. It is known that
methodology should take into account the psychological laws of
memory and thinking, the perception and reproduction of the
language material, the formation of foreign professional
communicative competence. According to the work of modern
psychologists, it has been experimentally proved that the students
retain much more comprehended material in their memory than
during the rote memory, the most effective result of the foreign
language professional communication is achieved through
professional tasks. Therefore, the Case Study method has been so
widely used by universities, which tend to combine this method
with traditional lecture format. If the Case Study course is
properly arranged and run, it gives both parties a most exiting
feeling that is a sensation of being an active participant of a big
deal. The Case Study is able to be related to the realistic
professional context and it provides a detailed analysis in the
certain case. As a research method the Case study is used in many
situations in order to contribute to the knowledge of individual,
group, social, business phenomena. The Case Study is often used
as a research method on social disciplines such as psychology,
sociology, social work, business, education, in the field of
economics. When the Case Study is used in the descriptive
research it describes a business situation that we have observed or
been told about. The event has happened before and what is
written does not affect what happened. And we have not been
able to influence what happened. When Case Studies are used
empirically they are used to start a role play between peers, and
in that way they gain understanding and students are able to
describe their actions. Students are part of what course of action
is taken. The main benefit of the Case Study is that the Case
Study is able to be related to the realistic professional context and
it provides a detailed analysis in the certain case. It is said that the
Case Study method has strength in obtaining the detailed and
relevant experience. The internal validity is so high that makes
the Case Study very valuable. The courses of English for Special
Purposes (ESP) tend to focus on promoting the communicative
skills that are usually applied to future professional format. These
skills are the core and employability skills, being on the top target
list of the University education. With foreign languages that are
the most efficient discipline to train these skills, the present
research is motivated to find out the main features of the Case
Study or the Case Analysis courses in order to explore ESP
courses at the Russian University. It is known that for each level
of the educational process, its own system of authentic tasks in
the foreign language training should be elaborated. Providing a
motivational factor in the process of formation of foreign
professional communicative competence through the organization
of students’ speech activity in the logic of solving professionally
important tasks. In such a phased correspondence of the students’
course, there are very sufficient opportunities for the truly active,
creative forms of work that produce the natural language in a
foreign language. Learning a foreign language is not considered
as a process of information transfer, but as a proper and highquality organization of pedagogical conditions for the
development of a student’s personal professional growth in
conditions of professionally oriented education.
Key words: Case Study method, ESP course, HBS,
comprehended memory, mastering cognitive strategies, problemsolving, communicative skills in realistic professional context