Formation of a regional-oriented communicative competence for bachelors in tourism at the university in the process of learning foreign languages on the basis of interdisciplinary integration

The authors discuss the role of interdisciplinary integration (interdisciplinary connections) when filling the content of the English language in order to create a regionally-oriented communicative competence for bachelors of tourism. Interdisciplinary integration allows content to fill the features of professional work and professional activity peculiarities of the region, all of which prepares young specialists to perform professional tasks in the region. Practice shows that currently travel agencies reoriented to the Russian regions and CIS countries, which in turn causes the need for professional training of the tourism industry in regions for tourism development in the field. Accordingly, the objective of training is to train specialists on demand for regions’ tourism industries - solving this problem contributes to the formation of a regionally-oriented communicative competence of bachelors of tourism. This article describes how interdisciplinary integration of the content of disciplines from the professional cycle in foreign language teaching of undergraduates in tourism on the example of the English language. In particular, identified are the following characteristics of the study: 1) the formation of a regional and linguistic competence occurs in the process of learning material, reflecting everyday life, especially in the region and specifics of professional activities. Working with similar material, bachelors of the tourism industry master professional vocabulary, learn grammar of the English language, learn the correct pronunciation with the realities of the region’s language, learn to build theirr own grammatically correct phrases aimed at communication in professional activities and that contributes to the formation of regionally-speech competence; 2) the formation of regional-speech competence occurs in the preparation of dialogue and monologue sentences using vocabulary that reflects the professional activities and cultural characteristics of the region, in discussing problems, discussions, when writing an essays; 3) the formation of a regional and socio-cultural competence is carried out during the development of the content of the English language that reflects the characteristics of the region for professional activities: for the development of inbound tourism - knowledge of the customs and traditions of the peoples of the Far East, tourist objects of Far East, attractions, history and geography of the region; for the development of outbound tourism - knowledge of cultural traditions of China, China’s attractions, geography, China’s history.