Abstract
The article deals with future hotel and restaurant professional image development with the help of reading professionally oriented texts in English. It is noted that the general training courses play an important role in the future hotel and restautant specialists’ professional image formation. The course “The Foreign Language of Professional Communications” belongs to the general training courses. Reading is considered as one of the important elements of speech activity. It is a system-forming basis for the information and academic skills formation, and affects the future specialists’ image. The aim of the article is to highlight the influence of the English professional texts on future hotel and restaurant specialists’ professional image development. The scholars’ viewpoints concerning image, professional image, choosing texts and the methodology of working with the texts are considered in the article. The authors believe that working with the English language texts of professional direction plays an important role in shaping the future hotel and restaurant business specialists’ professional image development. The authors’ own experience of teaching at high school let them to elaborate their own strategy of the students’ working with professionally oriented texts. The authors believe that pre-text, text, and post-text activities are used to help the students working with the texts. It is noted that working with texts stimulates students to independent work, develops the ability to search for the necessary information. Expanding the vocabulary becomes important when working with texts, which in turn affects communicative competence, which is a component of professional image. Different online platforms such as Moodle, Vseosvita, Quizlet, Google docs, Google presentations and Canva used to work with texts online are considered. It is noted that working with professional texts will teach the students to work with various types of documents: a job application, a resume, a cover letter, and other types of business and e-mails. The problem of studying the future hotel and restaurant business specialists’ business etiquette of acquires further study.
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