Shifting emphasis in the educational paradigm of engineers training

¹ Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages*
T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Kemerovo, Russia
² Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Department, T. F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Kemerovo, Russia
³ Senior Teacher of Foreign Language Department, Postgraduate, T. F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Kemerovo, Russia

^* Corresponding author: znikina@kuzstu.ru

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of efficient shift of cultural accents in the engineers’ training concept in the context of educational environment internalization and expansion of cross-cultural professional contacts. The improvement of professional skills is considered through framing and formation of students’ basic skills of multicultural communication. It is to be regarded as a main factor of the training of the new generation engineers. The authors stress on the idea that the success of academic mobility and business communication in professional community is determined by the level of future specialists’ readiness to professional multicultural cooperation.