On changing requirements for the professional readiness of foreign language teachers

The article highlights the issue of university teaching staff professional readiness to use the educational standards for language training. We specify the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages for professional purposes considering the specific features of professional tasks to solve which a specialist should possess the foreign language communication strategies. The article also presents approaches to understanding the role and functions of a teacher in developing personal and professional qualities of future specialists. With the increase in complexity of foreign language training in high school the changes in the content of the foreign languages teachers professional competence can be noticed. There are also considered the third generation standards requirements to the professional competence level of a foreign languages teacher and the ways of enhancing this competence.