DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPETENCE OF PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING OF FUTURE EXPERTS IN TOURISM

Abstract

Actualizing the importance of socio-cultural sustainability as a factor of sustainable development of society under the conditions of deepening contradictions of the globalized world determines the social order for purposeful formation of the personality that is ready for meaningful activity and permanent growth. Professionally oriented foreign language training facilitates the development of the competence of personal improvement, which primarily consists of the relevant knowledge and ability to carry out meaningful activities, in particular moral self-regulation. It also implies the experience of such activity and certain authority over such life strategy ̶ the strategy of permanent personal development as a prerequisite for successful professional activity and socio-cultural sustainability. The core of this competence is self-cognition based on reflection. It is also concerned with positive thinking and creativity. The key role in these processes belongs to language, which is the tool of thought, the basic mechanism of acquiring knowledge about the objective world. Learning the language, the person masters the basic forms and laws of thinking. Language allows people to go beyond their immediate sensory perception and makes up the element of their self-consciousness, which is highly important from the perspective of personal improvement. Professionally oriented foreign language training is a powerful factor of enhancing students’ cognitive abilities, in particular their self-consciousness. The development of the competence of personal improvement in the process of foreign language training is primarily due to the acceleration of cognitive processes in learning, which is ensured by the intensive use of language as a means of cognition and communication.