Towards Teaching and Assessing Future Tourism Specialists Communicative Competence

Abstract

The integration of the content of general education for a higher education course was reflected in the development of a program of the elective course "English for special purposes (for future tourism professionals)" in a foreign language at the Khoja Ahmed Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University. Course indicates the requirements for the quality of preparation of a university student. The structure of the program includes: an explanatory note, the main content, syllabus, the curriculum where the requirements for the level of foreign language proficiency are presented - the presence of communicative competence in the professional field, a list of intermediate control questions, a map of the educational and methodological support of the course, a methodical guide for conducting seminars and SIW and information about equipping classrooms for this elective course. As a result, communicative competence has been formed, which allows to obtain general professional and highly professional knowledge and skills. General professional knowledge and ability include knowledge of the rules and social norms of behavior of native speakers, knowledge of traditions, history, culture, the social system of the countries of the studied language, communicative knowledge, disclosure of the content of communication; ability to start a conversation, translate the correction from the conversation; the ability to select and differentiate the necessary sociocultural material, the ability to correctly interpret verbal and non-verbal behavior based on sociocultural knowledge, the ability to conduct conversation, dialogue, discussion, negotiations, the ability to draw up official documents. Highly specialized knowledge and skills - knowledge of specialized modern terminology, the ability to widely use it in the fields of tourism, hospitality, pedagogy, psychology and finance (Rizakhojayeva G. A. et al., 2017).