WHY WOULD THE ENGINEER NEED TO KNOW A FOREIGN LANGUAGE? (ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS)
The article presents the results of the analysis of requirements for foreign language competence contained in the professional standards of engineering profile. Identified existing problems and contradictions, among which: the lack of language requirements in a number of standards; the inconsistency of requirements to linguistic knowledge and professional skills; lack of continuity in the development of foreign language competence, etc. A separate problem is the orientation of the "lexico-grammar" model of language competence. This involves working engineer with texts and dictionary, and does not take into account the possibility of its involvement in professional-communicative situations. The present article reflects only an initial stage of judgment of a problem of "the requirement to foreign-language competence of professional standards of a technical profile". The solution of this problem raises a number of the questions of conceptual and organizational character.