MODELING OF PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION (BY THE EXAMPLE OF AGROBUSINESS AREA)

The paper is aimed to discuss the notion of model and modeling in training professional foreign language the students majoring in agrarian domain. As the foreign language education has to be focused on the development of communication skills and be directed towards the profession in working out the curriculum of any major, it is necessary to develop the speaking skills for professional communication in the field of (English for Specific Purposes) ESP training. Therefore the professionally-oriented tasks develop students’ language skills and they are the simplest way of getting learners involved into the future professional process via realizing the modeling of professionally-oriented situations. Analysis and literature review of scholars studying model, its types, features and application in communication were discussed in the paper. Taking into account the approach as being a learning strategy and the general direction in learning a foreign language, it should be mentioned in dealing with modeling. So some modeling approaches as system, competence-based and cognitive-communicative were also presented in the work. The content of professional foreign language education is also mentioned which is considered to be one of the most important components in competence-based approach of educational process. The content of foreign language education is studied in two aspects: subject and processual. The characteristic feature of the subject content is a cognitive-linguocultural complex. The processual aspect consists of communicative tasks, exercises and problems, collection of typical situations, case-studies, creative essays and etc.  Every aspect with a practical example of modeling professional foreign language communication is described in the paper.