Lecture. Role of foreign language professional and communicative competence in integrative process of formation of linguistic personality of a specialist

2. Conceptual principles of language learning for specific purposes.

Today foreign language as a subject is increasingly becoming a language for the profession and is intended to ensure the readiness of future specialists for adaptation and self-determination in the world of new information technologies, for long-life education and personal development. Foreign language is an organic component of such training. The knowledge of it broadens the professional context of specialists, makes their professional field wider due to availability of foreign information. Social order is expressed in the prestige of the knowledge of a foreign language, in the students´ priorities, thereby activating the pragmatic aspects of foreign language learning. The pragmatic approach to the study of foreign languages turns the researchers to Hutchinson and Waters´s theory, which focuses on the following conceptual principles of language learning for specific purposes:

• determination of learning objective becomes a constitutive factor in the process of profession-oriented foreign language learning. T. Hutchinson said: «Tell me, why you need English and I´ll tell you what English you need»;
• analysis of the learners´ needs is a starting point in the construction of profession-oriented courses of training the language of profession;
• language variations and registers become the basis for the language of specific context since the analysis of linguistic characteristics of particular professional areas has revealed no significant differences between the language for special purposes and the basic language;

language for special purposes is described as a «limited language» used in the situations of professional communication, around which a special vocation-oriented course is constructed.