Abstract
The article deals with the problems of teaching business English to future specialists in Economics in the context of quickly changing business environment. The authors of the article investigate the challenges which face professional training of future economists and prove a very important role of acquiring skills in English for special purpose for future professional activity describing the current requirements to teaching business English to students of non-linguistic specialties. The new methods of teaching a foreign business language are revealed and the importance of gaining skills to maintain the stable contacts with business partners by means of perfect knowledge of English is proved. The authors define the main principles of organizing a business foreign language teaching in higher educational establishments and analyze the indicators of successful acquiring of language skills by students of economic faculties. The set of tasks aimed at further formation of language competence and acquisition of practical skills of language proficiency is suggested.
Highlights
The far-reaching process of globalization and rapid development of foreign economic relations as well as close links with the representatives of multicultural business environment set the tone and dictate high requirements to the level of teaching business English in economic higher educational establishments
Business languages teaching must be analyzed in the context of learning foreign languages for special purpose, whereas the main features of the latter are the careful analysis of current needs, selection and working out educational materials, prior to this type of language well known as the business one
3) Such lessons contribute to the development of language skills and abilities, and widen the general outlook; they develop communicative skills of learners to prove their point of view, state their thoughts competently, dispute the ideas of the interlocutor or support them and so on
Summary
The far-reaching process of globalization and rapid development of foreign economic relations as well as close links with the representatives of multicultural business environment set the tone and dictate high requirements to the level of teaching business English in economic higher educational establishments. It is hard to deny that foreign language learning must result in the formation of multicultural competence providing forming of certain level of linguistic, socio cultural and intercultural knowledge and skills that allow conducting effectively business communication in professionally-oriented sphere of activity (Petkov, Filonenko, 2014). In last decades foreign languages continue to cause close attention of students who want to learn them and of teachers who are trying to find new methods of teaching them in quickly changing educational environment. Learning business language foresees the introduction of the special course of spoken language training and focuses attention on certain types of communication in professional context (Kumarova, 1997)
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