Abstract
The paper is devoted to developing professional terminological vocabulary among students of higher education technical institutions within professional foreign language studies. Organization of language courses for special purposes among students majoring in textile products technologies and design illustrates professional vocabulary development process. Interdisciplinary context as the integration of technical and humanitarian scientific disciplines is considered a leading factor in increasing motivation for learning, activating professional motives, and developing professional competence. Teaching a foreign language for professional purposes is based on the main principles of communicative and person-oriented approaches, integration of various disciplines achievements focusing on methods of improving professional knowledge and skills. From the perspective of educational tasks, professional language studies can be divided into three stages. The contents of the preparatory stage are to develop communicative competence based on general-interest or country-specific texts. The developing stage provides for the gradual transition to learning professional foreign language with general scientific, technical, and popular science texts used as teaching resources. The purpose of the practice-oriented stage is to develop professional language proficiency. The experimental aspect of teaching based on interdisciplinary integration is aimed at preparing various creative tasks providing students with an opportunity to acquire detailed professional information in a foreign language. The scientific research project on studying etymological basis of the most common textile terms illustrates a way of forming a motivated attitude towards professional vocabulary acquisition.
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