Abstract:

The article discusses a topical issue of psychological and pedagogical aspects of developing foreign language professionally oriented thesaurus in the context of lifelong learning education, which views a foreign language acquisition as an impartial element of enhancement of communicative and intercultural competences level in the context of specialization and professional career development. The article reviews reading professional-oriented texts as one of the most productive types of learning activities. The learning aspect especially emphasizes professionally oriented thesaurus in the context of lifelong learning education as the way of making students compatible in the international job market and giving them an opportunity to develop professionally through communication with their colleagues and exchange experience. Therefore, our goal of learning is not so much “filling” a student with a certain amount of information, but the formation of his cognitive self-learning strategies as a basis and an integral part of future professional and social activities. It also highlights the need to focus the entire educational process on active autonomous work of students, creating pedagogical conditions for their self-regulation, self-development, as well as increasing the level of foreign language skills in the field of vocational education. In addition, the article addresses the problem of the relationship and accounting for the age and individual characteristics of students in the organization of educational activities.

Keywords:

Psychological and pedagogical aspects, professionally oriented thesaurus, lifelong learning education, reading, professional competence.