IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education

Abstract

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.