MODERN TENDENCIES IN PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

Today, when computer technology has covered all areas of human activity, there is a need to improve the process of teaching a foreign language, because proficiency in a foreign language is one of the factors affecting competitiveness of a young specialist in the world labor market. Changing the structure, the content and organization of the educational process, professional training allows to create conditions for teaching students of the higher educational institutions in accordance with their professional interests and intentions to continue their education. Thus, language study refers to learning based on the needs of students and is dictated by the characteristics of the future profession or educational specialty. It is considered to be its main differrence from teaching a language for general educational purposes (i.e. traditional schooling, preparation for the university entrance exam, etc.) and socialization (conversational communication, survival abroad, etc.).