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Abstract

At present, the acquisition of universal methods of professional activity by participants in the educational process is becoming an inextricable part of language education. Its key objectives are the formation and development of future specialists' foreign-language communicative competencies, research skills, and the skills to use contemporary information and communications technology in professional practice. The present study focuses on a search for new opportunities to improve the communicative competencies of future specialists as part of them mastering professionally-oriented terminology in English. The paper describes the prerequisites for the development of communicative competencies, including lexical competency. The conducted experimental study demonstrates that the introduction of an additional course focused on the mastery of trilingual professional terminology together with efforts to build greater motivation to master said competencies among the informal leaders of student groups ultimately promotes the improvement of communicative competencies of future specialists in the process of learning the foreign language.

Keywords: English language, Professionally-oriented foreign language, Lexical competency, Professional terminology, Students

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