Features of Studying English Language for Students in Physical Education and Sports

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of optimizing the methodology of teaching English to students in the field of physical culture and sports through the using of communicative methods, information and communication technologies, etc. The article proves the need for the formation of communicative and intercultural competence, which will allow the future specialists-athletes to use a foreign language in professional and social spheres taking into accountparameters necessary for free communication in the conditions of international sports professional activity. The article examines the main factors of professionally oriented education, directions of foreign language teaching athletes, as well as the use of electronic services in the educational process. The focus is also on the cultural aspect of language learning which will contribute to the development of intercultural communicative competence. And the main task of learning English at the institutions of higher education is to develop and to practice the communication competence in the field of physical culture and sports that would primarily be context based for the future sports specialists on many different levels.