ПІДГОТОВКА ФАХІВЦІВ ДО ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО ІНШОМОВНОГО СПІЛКУВАННЯ

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of foreign language communicative competence in determining the competitiveness of a modern specialist. Competitiveness is determined not only by high qualification in the professional field, knowledge and skills, the ability to use them flexibly, initiative, communication skills, creative activity, readiness for continuous self-development, but also, to a greater extent, by the willingness to solve professional tasks in a foreign language communication. The scientific and pedagogical literature devoted to the improvement of educational processes, basic principles of national scientific and methodological aspects of specialist competence formation in the information society; peculiarities of implementation of competence approach in foreign language education; integration of educational and communication strategies into the learning of a foreign language at different levels of education; existing approaches to the teaching of a professional foreign language in the higher education system and research on the problem of language training of specialists was analyzed. The analysis of foreign language teaching aids for students of technical specialties and specialists is carried out. The requirements for the selection of educational scientific authentic material are considered, taking into account the linguistic nature and logic of building a course of study in a particular science. Based on the experience of working in a technical higher educational establishment, a comparative analysis of approaches to teaching a foreign language to students of technical specialties and specialists with high professional qualification was carried out. The sequence and procedure for conducting classes for teaching specialists with high professional training in a foreign language in their specialty are described. It was concluded that teaching a foreign language can be viewed as a means of transferring socially and professionally significant information to specialists, practicing the skills of using foreign sources in their professional activities, preparing a specialist for lifelong education.