Olesya Marshuba

The article deals with modern technologies, providing effective English learning teaching for human studies students as exemplified by bachelor academic program 44.03.05 “Pedagogical Education”, profiles – Histo-ry and English, Social Studies and English and 41.03.05 “International Relations”. The author studies the ed-ucational methodical textbook “Tales of the Great” which helps form future graduates professional, general professional and common cultural competences, while improving the English language knowledge.

The article deals with definitions of the notions “culture” and “organizational culture”, created by Russian and foreign scholars. Organizational culture is a relatively new phenomenon which was began to be studied in the middle of the previous century but it is still topical nowadays. The author shows the interconnection of these phenomena demonstrating their interdependence and influence on the national culture, all spheres of life, including organization functioning.

The author discusses the relevance of key competencies in the higher education system, once analyzed various approaches to the definition of «professional competence», existing in the domestic and foreign science. The author cites the components of professional competence, functions that perform key professional competence in life of every person.