Educational Paradigm Shift in Teaching Foreign Language Oral Professional Communication to Non-language-majoring Students

The present article deals with the problem of teaching foreign language oral professional communication to students of non-language majors. It lays emphasis on the need for possessing language skills in the context of every professional field, and explains a necessity to revise the content of training foreign language programs for non-language departments in connection with a transition to a two-level education system. The need to include specific language, types of discourse and typical communicative situations reflecting real communication in professional sphere is emphasized.