Linguodidactic foundations of linguistic provision of information security of an organization

Abstract

The Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation is growing the status of an international platform for the research into Cognitive Linguistics and Professional Linguodidactics (PLD). It reflected the outcomes of that research both in the community-significant and large-scale conferences, and in the innovative educational process. The actualization of the inseparable connection between the research and the social and education practice is due to the opening of the undergraduate program in linguistics that was launched at the Financial University in the 2021–2022 academic year. The materials of this article reflect the first results of implementing the master’s program ‘Actual Problems of Linguodidactics and Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language. The core idea of this program rests in the definition of the linguodidactic foundations that reveal the structural and the content model of the development of the information and analytical competence of a future professional who would be capable of ensuring the information security of an organization by linguistic means. In the discussion part, the authors argue it proved the scientific and the practical interaction of the university teachers and their undergraduates to be embodied, on the one hand, in the course of the theoretical substantiation of the axiological strategies of foreign language education. (The latter determining the key concepts that play the role of the wording of the principles of PLD, i. e. the academic field that gained a new sound in the present research.) On the other hand, this interaction affects the selection of the adequate technologies that is necessitated by the said principles and the development of the specific target tasks that bring to life the mission the program’s focus, i. e. the linguistic support of the information security of an organization.