Scientific paper ID 2584 : 2024/3

The paper treats various types of interaction (communication) between students, on the one hand, and lecturer and students, on the other, within the English for PhD students course at the Todor Kableshkov University of Transport, in terms of interaction beneficial role for learners’ language awareness (LA) enhancement. Interaction techniques applied in the English for general (EGP) and specific purposes (ESP) course modules belong to social language learning strategies (SLLS), which, along with remaining language learning strategies (LLS), are crucial for language material comprehension. SLLS are commented on with regard to their essence and types. Considered interaction procedures are presented within the framework of the importance of SLLS implementation in educational process, based on specialized research literature, as well as with respect to data stemming from the analysis of an author-created survey, carried out among PhD students, in the objective of exploring their assessment of several interaction techniques use aimed at the more complete grasping of taught categories at all levels of language deion. Survey evaluation results are presented, commented on and, later, in conclusion, justified in the perspective of some factors, the crucial one being interaction approaches prompting cognitive LLS use, and, hence, mainly indirectly contributing to LA. Communication techniques not only positively impact LA, but also essential EGP and ESP educational process parameters, and, thus, students’ communicative competence.