THE POSSIBILITY OF USE OF THE EPISTEMIC APPROACH IN MODERN PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
The article is dedicated to way of how the epistemic approach can be introduced into modern professional foreign language education. The author reveals contents of notions “epistemic approach” and “episteme”, focusing on the complexity of these phenomena and pointing out their pedagogical, sociocultural and philosophic aspects. The author underlines the importance of foreign language acquisition on the basis of educational epistemes. The article contains some theses of the implementation of the epistemic approach in professional foreign language education and its educational potential. The author also singles out requirements, established for teachers and students when the epistemic approach is used in foreign language classes. The researcher suggests that the epistemic approach widens the educational potential of professional foreign language education, expands students’ worldview and contributes to their over-all personal development.