Teaching tourist guides foreign languages: finding effective methods

Abstract

The study deals with the issues of foreign language training of tourist guides. It has been established that the system of training tourism specialists for excursion activities requires improvement, namely, the improvement of foreign language competence, determination of the content of training methods for specialists in this area. The purpose of the study is to develop a methodology for the formation of foreign language competence in dialogical speech of future tourist guides. The developed methodology for the formation of language competence in dialogical speech includes the stages of formation: “replication”, mastering dialogical unity, mini-dialogues and dialogues of certain functional types; exercise system; teaching methods – interactive, project method; teaching aids, criterion-effective components of language competence in dialogical speech. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the language competence in dialogical speech formation technique in accordance with the inductive approach.