FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE TOURISM FACULTY STUDENTS IN TEACHING A FOREIGN (SECOND) LANGUAGE

Abstract

The relevance of this article is determined by the fact that the concept of the development of professional education in Russia at the present stage is due to the trends in the prospective transformation of the economy. New directions in the field of the economic development require the necessity of revising the tasks facing higher education. Currently, both external and internal tourism is becoming one of the most promising sectors of the Russian economy. The need for learning foreign languages is increasing with the development of cultural, tourist, economic ties between countries and continents. The demand for specialists in the field of tourism who speak foreign languages is growing every year. One of the most important areas for the development of education is becoming a competency-based approach, namely, the development of language knowledge, skills and abilities associated with the practical application of a specialist’s communicative abilities in the field of tourism. Therefore foreign language education should be focused more on professional competence, which increases the efficiency of specialists. The content of foreign language education has a significant, but underused potential for professionally oriented training of specialists in the field of tourism. The problem of language training of tourist university specialists in professional education is considered in the works of A.P. Shenshina, O.Yu. Markova, T.N. Efremtseva, E.A. Aliluiko, V.M. Kospanova and others. The problem of introducing a linguistic and regional component into the process of teaching a foreign language is considered in the works of both foreign (R. Lado, J. Lacera, etc.) and domestic researchers (E.M. Vereshchagin, V.G. Kostomarov, M.B. Khrapchenko and etc.). The deepening