TRAINING MANAGERS IN LANGUAGE FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES WITH UTILIZING PRACTICE-ORIENTED TOOLS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a topical issue of modern professional education methodology that is a practical use of competence-based approach elements in the course of foreign language training with managers-to-be. Examples of using practice-oriented tools that could be used in the framework of major “Foreign language in professional sphere” are described. The given didactic methods contribute to higher qualitative training of managers as well as facilitate their future professional activity in a real sector of economy. The teaching conditions for achieving the planned results in foreign language training of managers are proposed. The author makes the conclusion about expediency of using the integration of competence-oriented and communicative teaching methods. The article concludes that at present it is no longer enough to train a specialist who speaks a foreign language at a level sufficient to solve production problems. This must be a generalist manager who is able to shape the strategic development of his company, taking into account rapidly changing circumstances, which means that he himself must be ready to constantly learn and retrain, while expanding his knowledge in the field of the language of the specialty.