(690)PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGETEACHING TO STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALTIES

摘要

The article is devoted to some problems and prospects of foreign language teaching to the students ofnon-linguistic technical specialties in higher education institutions.Nowadays the paradigm of foreign language teaching is changing in direct proportion to changes insociety. The processes of globalization and integration of the world's economic, cultural and other vitalprocesses that characterize the modern social order, led to the expansion of the communicative spaceof humanity. In turn, the communication process leads to tight market relations. Market relations ofsupply and demand has steadily spread into the sphere of education services, where one of the mostimportant conditions are all increasing requirements for the competence of future specialist. One of theaspects of the competence of a contemporary specialist, a graduate of the university, assumes foreignlanguage proficiency and its use in practice.Foreign language proficiency is necessary today to everyone to deal effectively as with communicationproblems: in situations of personal contact, in situations of communication in the educationalenvironment, so professional-level tasks.The model of foreign language communicative competence, adopted by the Council of Europe, is alsoused as the scale that determines the level of foreign language proficiency in educational institutionsof the former Soviet Union.The complex of objective and subjective reasons in the educational systems of post-Soviet countrieshas created an unforgivable gap in the training of specialists of technical specialties and especially inteaching them to foreign languages.The firm centralization in the educational system that is typical for many post-Soviet states, with aclear instruction from " high spheres" to the "Standards of specialties ..." that gives a limited number ofeducational credits in foreign language teaching to students of technical specialties and still ranks thatdiscipline to the obligatory subjects studied only in the initial stages of the university, led to a wrongformal attitude to qualifies" technician specialist " training.Due to the advancement of science and scientific discoveries, the gap in the training of technicalpersonnel in developed and developing countries is increasing.Many of the newly independent post-Soviet states, including Kazakhstan, seek closer cooperation withEurope, which today is limited to intercultural dialogue in the field of socio-cultural relations, the arts,sports or a one-time financial and economic aid, etc. By the close cooperation we would like to see therelationship of European universities in the educational process with local universities oncorresponding profile. As for the prospects of foreign language learning, they are sufficiently clearpicture: the practical application of theoretical knowledge on technical specialty, both at home andabroad, the ability to retrieve information from scientific journals in the technical area without anintermediary (without interpretation), which is called the “from the horse's mouth”, an opportunity topresent own technical innovations, share experiences, improve the skills in workshops, etc.As in Europe and the CIS, it is talked about the up-to-date process of integration in all spheres ofsociety. Therefore it would be preferable to see a qualified professional as a key figure of theseprocesses.