FORMATION OF THE EMOTIONAL-AND-VALUABLE COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL VALUES OF STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE COURSE OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TRAINING
Background. The cardinal changes in the Russian society at the end of the XXth - beginning of the XXIst centuries have concerned all spheres of activity: social, economic, cultural, ethnopolitical, etc. They have caused a need for changes in the system of higher education, particularly, for an increase of vocational training efficiency of future experts, who speak a foreign language. Today knowledge of foreign languages is an important indicator of professional competence, the factor which increases competitiveness of higher school graduates in the labor market, in particular, on the basis of their readiness for realization of professional values. According to FSES HPE the purpose of the “Foreign language” subject represents a systematic, organized process directed to functional use of the learned foreign language in professional activity, to formation of an emotional and valuable relation to professional values. The work purpose is to analyse the experimental work on formation of the emotional-and-valuable component of professional values of technical university students in the course of foreign-language preparation. Materials and methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research included concepts of professional formation of personality; modern concepts of education content; provisions of the theory and technique of foreign languages teaching; the axiological approach; the persoalityn-centered approach in training; the communicative approach in foreign languages training. The solution of the objectives has been provided by a complex of research complementary methods: theoretical, empirical, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. The formation level of five out of seven indicators of the emotional-and-valuable component of professional values, formed by us in the experimental group, was higher than in the control group at the end of the experiment. As for the development dynamics of the indicators of the emotional-and-valuable component of professional values, the obtained data testify to its positive direction only in the experimental group. In the control group, the formation level of some indicators of this component remained low. Conclusions. The carried-out experimental work stated an increase of the formation level of the indicators of the emotional-and-valuable component of professional values of technical university students in the course of foreign-language preparation.