Abstract:

The article considers building a holistic foreign-language educational space within a higher educational institution as a condition for the student’s personal and professional becoming. Special attention is given to the necessity of developing the holistic approach to teaching English as a foreign language within the new scientific paradigm. This paradigm, implementing the holistic principle in teaching foreign languages, implies considering the holistic scientific world-view and facilitates forming a multifaceted image of sciences. As a final result, it will promote building the best possible system of teaching foreign languages, which will make it possible to develop the students’ professional foreign-language competency and holistic thinking in the process of learning a foreign language. The holistic (complex) approach facilitates broadening the scientific knowledge and offers manifold possibilities for the interaction of many disciplines in solving complex educational tasks which realise the principles of consistency and holism, integration, cohesion and complementation in the educational process.

Keywords:

Foreign-language educational space, teaching foreign languages, the principle of holism, holistic approach, professionally focused education.