Abstract
The article analyzes and summarizes the existing scientific and theoretical developments on the allocation and selection of the content of the academic discipline “English for Specific Purposes” in the context of intercultural communication. Nowadays the problem of organizing the learning process in the national higher school is being solved in such a way that a foreign language to be studied as a phenomenon of the national culture of the people, as a vision of the world by these people and their perception of humanistic values. The authors convincingly prove that knowledge of a foreign language is an influential factor in the spirituality of the student’s personality, consciousness, thinking, views and beliefs, and the educational value of a foreign language is not only learning the language system or using a foreign language as a means of obtaining advanced information. The analysis and generalization of the existing scientific and theoretical heritage and experience give reason to recognize the following main ways of realizing the educational potential of a foreign language in the context of improving the quality of professional training of a future engineer as: a combination of the principles on which intensive methods of teaching foreign languages are built, with the principles of conscious mastering of a foreign language and a systematic approach to the organization of the educational process; an organic combination of classroom and independent work of students, ensuring the use of existing language skills and speech skills, and a system of effective control over the process of mastering the content of foreign language academic disciplines by students. The generalization of their own practical experience gives the authors of the article grounds to highlight the didactic conditions for successful mastering of the content of the academic discipline “ESP”, which are effective in developing the ability for full-fledged intercultural communication among students of higher educational institutions.
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