Variety of Engineers’ Needs in the Foreign Language Usage as a Basis for their Training Diversification

The variety of conditions for use of a foreign language within the engineers’ professional activities leads to diversification of their foreign communicative needs and the necessity of improving their foreign language comprehension. Diversification of foreign communicative needs with the engineers has been confirmed during the study. The results of the latter show that the needs of engineers in using the foreign languages vary depending on the types of engineering activities implemented and the types of organizations they are employed at. The variations of needs according to types of engineering activities are mostly connected to the speech genres utilized in spoken and written texts used by engineers. This requires from the engineers professional communicative competence in a foreign language of various content. Differences in needs of engineers depending on types of organizations can first of all be seen in the various levels of engineer's communicative competence in a foreign language required for the purpose of speech activity in a foreign language in organizations of different types. Diversification of foreign language communicative needs with engineers is one of the principles explaining the necessity of foreign language training diversification in the course of engineer training which can be viewed as one of the directions for its development and a condition for ensuring its continuity.