Professional and pedagogical features of corporate foreign language education
The object of the study in the article is corporate foreign language teaching. The subject of the study is the specificity of this process, understood as a set of its features, caused by social and psycho-pedagogical features of adult professionally successful students. The authors view corporate teaching as a special type of adult education, where „adulthood” is manifested not only on a formal age basis but also as having substantial social, professional and academic experience. Special attention is paid to psychological and pedagogical characteristics of adult learners and taking them into account in the methodological context of foreign language teaching. The research methodology involves a multidisciplinary deductive reasoning. From the interdisciplinary justification of the relevance of the investigated process in modern socioprofessional space, the authors move to psycho-pedagogical characteristics of adult learners in the context of continuous development and attitudes of adulthood. Analysis in a strictly pedagogical space allows to identify the potential of foreign language knowledge and its role in human development in the study stage of its life trajectory. In the final part of the article, there is a fusion of psychological and pedagogical areas in the context of specific methodological features of corporate teaching of foreign language in the business environment. The authors come to the conclusions about the significant qualitative differences between the investigated types of training compared to other types of professional education (e.g. University), as well as the need of the training system for working in this field.