Individual educational track of participants of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in higher education

Abstract

The Olympic movement is a pedagogical phenomenon, within the framework of which gifted schoolchildren from grades 9 to 11 have the opportunity to guarantee themselves preferential admission to the best universities in the country in the profile of the subject, in intellectual competitions which they became diploma winners in.

The purpose of our article is to try to trace the fate of Olympiad participants after the completion of all academic competitions in school, and to trace their individual educational track in higher school. Based on systemic, activity and cultural approaches, we used empirical (survey, analysis of tasks) and theoretical methods (categorization, generalization, analysis of scientific literature on the topic). We interviewed participants in the final stages in English in 2017 and 2021, the sample was 95 schoolchildren in each reporting year. We have revealed that the focus of the academic interest of Anglists is shifting towards social, economic and exact sciences, which proves the important applied role of English as a means of international scientific communication. Based on the data obtained, we proposed vectors for the development of the content of Olympiads in English.

Thus, we propose to use tasks for translation from native to foreign language (and vice versa), to introduce a test of linguistic knowledge about the structure of languages, to consider the possibility of testing methodological knowledge related to the theory of teaching English. These program measures can increase the interest of schoolchildren in the pedagogical profession in the linguistic direction, while emphasizing the importance of expanding the concept of socio-cultural competence based on traditional spiritual and moral values.