Huliak O.
Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Lviv Institute of
Economics and Tourism, Lviv, Ukraine
FORMATION OF SKILLS OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Introduction. It is universally acknowledged that the sustainable development of
civil society, its positive dynamics is intensified under the conditions of effective
professional activities of its members. Effective professional activity of the modern
specialist in the manufacturing sphere or sphere of services involves the ability to apply
in performing professional tasks the knowledge of methodological culture, which
covers the ability to operate with general methods, techniques, and approaches to
knowledge and transformation of reality to develop the necessary professional skills to
achieve the desired professional results. The awareness of methodological culture
forms such a "mechanism of human effort" that enables your self-actualization by
improving your capacity for more meaningful activity.
An integral part of effective professional activity is effective professional
communication, which is constructive communication, aimed at achieving
professionally meaningful goals to become successful and competitive, since the
success of any activity is measured in terms of goals accomplished. Perfect
communication, according to Ukrainian linguist Ja. Radevich-Vynnytsky, can become
the key to human success in society, and its irregularity or inadequacy is often the cause
of conflicts between people [Radevich-Vynnytsky, 2008, p. 16]
Effective professional communication is provided, first of all, by the availability
of professional knowledge, as well as the general humanitarian culture of people, their
capacity for harmonious interaction in society and the professional group, knowledge,
and skills of business and etiquette communication.
The issues of linguistic communication, in particular, effective communication,
were paid a considerable attention in scientific studies of many domestic and foreign
scholars (F. Batsevich, T. Kosmeda, V. Manakin, G. Pocheptsov, Ya. Radevich-
Vynnytsky, O. Semeniuk, T. Ushakov, A. Weszbicka, O. Zalevska, G. Grasis, E. Bern,
J. Lacoff, R. Langacker, C. Fillmore, L. Talmi, M. Johnson, J. Taylor and others).
Various aspects of teaching a foreign language ̶ methods, principles of
organization, technology, forms, content, approaches to learning etc. ̶ were the subject
of research by such famous domestic scholars as V. Plahotnik (consciously practical
approach to learning foreign languages), T. Siryk (communicatively functional
approach), N. Skliarenko (intensive method), O. Vishnevsky (communicative-activity
method), L. Byrkun (communicative-personal method), R. Martynova (systemic-
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