Educational intentions of foreign language training of future experts in tourism and economics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of intellectual and spiritual improvement of personality in the process of foreign language training of future specialists in tourism and economics, whose viability can be facilitated, above all, by quality education that emphasizes the return to the human-oriented model of society development and the realization of the humanistic potential of the general cultural context as a means of preventing conflicts and contradictions within a culture. The article traces how the actualization of this aspect determines the educational intentions in the process of teaching foreign languages, in particular to students majoring in tourism and economics, as well as what conditions should be created to implement these educational intentions in the context of foreign language training. Thus, the purpose of this study is to consider the educational intentions of foreign language training of future experts in tourism and economics through the prism of intellectual and spiritual development of the personality in the process of its professional formation, as well as to focus on the laws of personal and professional evolvement in education in a broad sense as a process of mastering a social experience, cultural advancements of the nation, and the values of universal culture. The methodological basis for the interpretation of the issues raised is taking into account the fundamental principles of psychological, pedagogical and linguistic science concerning the laws of personality formation in the process of its cognitive activity, and the role of language in cognition, and evolvement of consciousness and self-consciousness in the context of cultural experience. The study concludes that in an increasingly global and digital information society, there is a contradiction between awareness in certain fields and areas and the appropriate quality of knowledge, whose truth is confirmed by practice, and whose effectiveness is the result of knowledgebased beliefs, and value priorities of the individual. Intensive foreign language training optimizes the resolution of this contradiction, providing the necessary prerequisites for harmonizing the worldview capability of students, especially their world perception, since the worldview is a system of human ideas about the world and all things in the world, society and one’s place in society, and progress and improvement, from the linguistics’ perspective, can only be achieved when the study of the history and nature of things and the study of words go together.