CHANGING OBJECTIVES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES DUE TO NEW SOCIAL REQUIREMENTS
The complex objectives of teaching and learning foreign languages for professional purposes (FLSP) in relation to new social and economic requirements are analyzed. The author provides grounds for building a new hierarchy and structure of FLSP learning objectives. The attributes of educational, learning, developing and practical objectives are shown as an integral unity of the complex of teaching objectives. The requirements to setting objectives are given. The real-life process of setting objectives and reflecting on the objectives for the course on the whole and for an individual lesson is described. Roles and contributions of both teachers and learners as autonomous agents of educational process are presented as being equally important and interrelated. The samples of setting objectives for a lesson and means of involving students into objectives setting and reflecting on them are shown as evidence. The conclusion is made about the multifocal character of FLSP learning and teaching objectives and an important role of foreign language training for future professionals.