Keyword: «guide-interpreter»

The rapid development of international cooperation and international contacts entails the need to improve the training of personnel in the field of tourism, including guides-interpreters. It is well known that an interpreter as a tourist profile specialist should not only have a certain amount of professional knowledge, skills and abilities, but also constantly improve his knowledge in the field of a foreign language. In this regard, the problem of optimizing the process of forming the operational competence of guides – interpreters in specialized centers for professional development determines the relevance of the research in the article. The purpose of the study is to justify the need to optimize the process of forming the operational competence of guides – interpreters in specialized centers for professional development. The article is prepared on the basis of the following methods: theoretical review and analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the research problem, pedagogical observation and generalization of the experience of training guide-interpreters in specialized capital and regional centers for professional development. Based on the results of the study, it was established that the optimization of the process of forming the operational competence of the guide-interpreters would be more effective in improving the foreign language in specialized centers for advanced training with the use of the author's model and methodology presented in the study. The theoretical significance of the research in the article is that in the theory and methodology of vocational education, the content of the operational competence of guides and interpreters and the model for optimizing the process of forming the operational competence of guides and interpreters in specialized centers for professional development have been identified and established. Practical significance of the research consists in the focus of its results on the optimization of the process of forming the operational competence of the guides – interpreters in specialized centers for professional development. Appropriate methodology and program have been determined, which provide for the development and application in practice of professionally-oriented speech situations for the improvement of a foreign language command. The results of the conducted research make it possible to draw scientifically grounded conclusions and outline the effectiveness of the established model and methodology for optimizing the process of forming the operational competence of guides-interpreters in specialized centers for advanced training based on the improvement of a foreign language.