ENSURING PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE COMPETENCE AS A NECESSARY FACTOR FOR IMPROVING THE EXPERTISE OF FINANCIERS AND BANK EMPLOYEES

N Tymkiv,O Borodiyenko,N Nychkalo

doi:10.18371/fcaptp.v6i41.251469

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Abstract

Abstract. The article is aimed at analyzing the impact of globalization challenges to ensure qualitative professional language competence as a necessary factor for improving the expertise of financiers and bank employees to meet requirements and needs of national and regional labour markets. The theoretical importance of the article is that it is analyzed the semantic content of the basic notions connected with professional language competence in the foreign scientific space. The practical importance of the article is that the authors proved experimentally implementing the professional language competence and developed recommendations for ensuring this competence in higher educational institutions of Ukraine. The article deals with the current issues of the development of economic education, state policy implementation directed to the experts of this area. The essence, content and structure of professional language competence are highlighted in this article. The features of cognitive and practical activities of financiers and bank employees are revealed. The constituents and conditions for increasing the efficiency of forming the professional language competence of these finance and bank specialists and their willingness are defined. A significant attention is paid to the importance of prediction of lifelong professional education development, strengthening of forecast scientific research function. The specific features of forming the content of training and the application of innovative and advanced pedagogical technologies are identified. The interaction of economic, scientific and technical factors being considered in training experts for above-mentioned industry is outlined. In order to estimate efficiency of this training interdisciplinarity is of great significance. The necessity of using interdisciplinary educational technologies in the professional training of financiers and bank employees is substantiated. The importance of interdisciplinarity in education under the conditions of intense development in information training and the expanded function of intellectual property objects in modern economy are demonstrated. It has been found that interdisciplinarity of economic education is grounded on the network connections of the studied disciplines. The aim, content, and trends in interdisciplinarity of academic education are presented in the system of economic training. Keywords: language competence, financiers and bank employees, professional education and training, higher education, labour market, upgrading, technologies, forecast. JEL Classification I21, L33 Formulas: 0; fig.: 0; tabl.: 0; bibl.: 28.

Highlights

There are a myriad of reasons why financiers and bank employees require language competence
Based on the model of intercultural competence derived from Byram’s work and the Intercultural Competence Assessment (INCA) project [5, p. 26], it is crucial for financiers and bank employees to develop a series of competences needed for effective intercultural dialogue and in a way that is acceptable to others when they are working in a group whose members have different cultural backgrounds, for instance communicative awareness, empathy, respect for otherness, acknowledgment of identities, tolerance of ambiguity, cultural knowledge, skills of interaction, behavioural flexibility, skills of interpreting and relating, critical cultural awareness, and action orientation
It has been confirmed that the process of teaching a foreign language to future finance specialists in Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas should resolve broader problems related to established practice, be concentrated on professional activities, which will entail changes in the aims, content, and structure of language training

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Introduction

There are a myriad of reasons why financiers and bank employees require language competence. Significant attention has been given to the investigation into the professional language competence of financiers and bank employees in the works of such researches as R.

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