Optimisation of the process of professional training the future managers for business сommunication in a foreign language
Abstract
Purpose
The paper purpose is to reveal the problem of future managers teaching and to determine the optimization ways of the process of managers’ professional training for business communication in a foreign language.
Design/methodology/approach
The following theoretical and empiric methods have been used in the research: critical analysis of resources, current programs, education regulations, manuals; method of observation, questioning of students and professors to reveal their attitude to different aspects of training for business communication in a foreign language at the higher school, systematic and synthesis methods.
Findings
The subject of the study is the pedagogical technologies of professional training the future managers for business communication in a foreign language. The relevance of the research is determined by the requirements of the society to the quality of professional education in management, the needs of higher educational institutions in scientifically and methodologically grounded materials for the efficient educational process and the urgency of resolving these issues. The objective of modernization in the area of education in the world is the achievement of new quality of teaching process that would correspond to new socioeconomic conditions. There are certain conditions to optimize the educational process that we associate with the efficient pedagogical technologies and the factors that influence the formation of motivation in professional training the future managers at Ukrainian higher educational institutions. The innovative pedagogical technologies open up new possibilities of supplying the educational process of acquiring foreign language professionally-oriented communicative competence. The improvements of the professionally training process of future managers for business communication, the diversity of methods and techniques of teaching business communication in a foreign language, strengthening interdisciplinary connections allow creating the conditions on the basis of which the students have a personal and professional interest in the work. As a conclusion the implementation perspectives of innovative technologies in the professionally training process of future managers are substantiated.
Research limitations/implications
The paper provides opportunities of optimization and methodological support of educational process of acquiring foreign language professionally-oriented communicative competence.
Originality/value
Such knowledge will help to improve the process of managers’ professional training in Ukrainian higher schools.
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