PROFESSION-ORIENTED INTERACTION OF FUTURE MILITARY PILOTS: UNDERSTANDING of CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES

One of the principal skills for military pilots during their professional activity is profession-oriented interaction. That is because they need to be able to interact in a foreign language during radio exchange, as well as to interact with foreign representatives within the professional field. Along with the concept of interaction, the paper considers similar concepts of conversation, cooperation, and communication; however, interaction reveals military pilots’ communicative activity in the most accurate way. The author determines the idea of profession-oriented interaction through the prism of approaches and gives its characteristics. General scientific approaches are used while training military aviation students for profession-oriented interaction: competency-based, systemic, person-centered, as well as the culture-based approach used for teaching a foreign language. The paper shows the significance of each approach for training future military pilots. The competency-based approach makes it possible to determine competencies necessary for future military pilots and contributing to the implementation of profession-oriented interaction in a foreign language. The person-centered approach indicates the importance of taking into account the individual characteristics of future military pilots while forming the style of their professional activity. The systemic approach covers all training components which are necessary for profession-oriented interaction of military pilots. The culture-based approach actualizes the formation of intercultural communication skills between future military specialists.