SLAVIN E. AN EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTENSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY FOR WRITTEN FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION IN THE ECONOMIC SPHERE. LIFELONG EDUCATION: The 21st Century.
2026. Vol. 14. No. 1. DOI: 10.15393/j5.art.2026.11124


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AN EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTENSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY FOR WRITTEN FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION IN THE ECONOMIC SPHERE

SLAVIN Eugene Igorevich
Postgraduate student at the Foreign Language Teaching Departmen
Moscow State Linguistic University
(Moscow, Russian Federation)
zhenya.slavin@yandex.ru
Keywords:
intensive learning
written foreign language communication
business English
economic sphere
entrepreneurial classes
pedagogical experiment
communicative competence.		 Abstract: the article is devoted to the problem of the formation of written foreign language communicative competence in the economic sphere among high school students of entrepreneurial classes in conditions of a shortage of study time. The purpose of the study is to empirically verify the effectiveness of the developed technology of intensive training in written business communication in English. The pedagogical experiment was conducted on the basis of GBOU Secondary School No. 1286 with the participation of 42 students of the 10th grade, divided into control and experimental groups of 21 people. The study included three stages: diagnostic (survey of 49 respondents, entrance testing), formative (cycles of classes using technology) and final (control testing). The diagnostic tools were based on three criteria of competencies of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education «Economist». To ensure objectivity, a blind evaluation procedure was used by independent experts with the calculation of the Kappa Cohen coefficient (k ≥ 0,69). The experimental group demonstrated an increment of 58 % of the maximum score, which was 2.6 times higher than the result of the control group (22 %), and made a qualitative transition from the initial (A1) to the intermediate (A2 ‒ B1) level of language proficiency. The greatest progress was recorded according to the criterion of «Economic culture and financial literacy» (+73,3 %). The re-sults confirm that the developed technology is an effective means of accelerating the formation of written competence and can be recommended for implementation in the educational process of specialized classes.
Paper submitted on: 11/20/2025; Accepted on: 02/20/2026; Published online on: 03/26/2026.

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