ABSTRACT:  We all know that the demand for learning a foreign language is increasing every year. This increases the need for modern methods of foreign language teaching in today’s competitive process.

The article considers general tendencies in world and Russian education, and also both principles and methods of forming professional, communicative, intercultural competences and in the process of teaching foreign language for professional purposes in the conditions of engineering, economic and other non-linguistic specialties at technical university. The article views some essential issues of this competence including awareness of pedagogical values, the construction of the pedagogical process, pedagogical communication and behavior; pedagogical technology, its essence, structural components, understanding of innovative components of professional activity, requirements for the design and engineering of pedagogical technologies.

KEY WORDS: education, pedagogical process, language teaching, communicative competence, foreign language for professional purposes, pedagogical, integration, technology, global, reflection.