THE IMPACT OF THE POSTMODERNISM CONCEPT ON THE SPECIFICS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The relevance of the work lies in the fact that higher professional education in the period of postmodernism is facing new challenges. The process of acquiring knowledge is changing: the availability of information and doubt about its reliability lead to a deterioration in its memorization. The predominance of Internet communication negatively affects the development of human emotional intelligence. This dictates new conditions for the development of foreign language education, where it is necessary to maximize the involvement of students in the process to achieve positive results. Ontological and axiological pluralism and relativism can also negatively affect the educational process. It also becomes relevant for the teacher to curb negative manifestations of conflicts and lack of motivation to acquire knowledge from students, for foreign language education this is primarily expressed in the need to create a strong connection between the interests of the student and the methods of language education. To realize these opportunities, when forming the goals, content and values of language education, it is worth taking into consideration the changes taking place in the process of acquiring knowledge under the influence of postmodernism. It is necessary to try to minimize the negative impact and effectively use the positive influence of postmodern features of foreign language education.