THE PECULIARITIES OF PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING OF TACTICAL LEVEL OFFICERS OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of professional foreign language training of tactical level officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It describes some problems of training military personnel in higher military educational establishments of Ukraine. The paper also considers some aspects of the AFU officers’ professional foreign language training. The contradictions of professional foreign language training include the inconsistency of the requirements for individual training in connection with the need for teamwork during military service activities. Strict regulation of actions in the military environment, the formation of tolerance, and willingness to destroy a person in combat or service also belong to the above-mentioned problems. In order to solve the problems of foreign language preparation, it is necessary to create conditions that would encourage a willingness to communicate with different foreign language speakers. They include the rejection of unified models of learning, ignoring the learner’s personal characteristics; the flexibility of constructing the educational process, the relevance of the process content side to the motivational orientations of the subjects of learning as well as motivational support of the educational process. The educators have to oppose the devaluation of universal values, encourage cultural pluralism, tolerance, the development of different types of thinking and respect the learner’s personal right to be a unique individual.