Extralinguistic competences and skills of the foreign language class

Abstract

The technological osmosis from all domains of activity makes it necessary for modern man to acquire new abilities and especially rapidity and certainty of both intellectual and physical reflexes. Starting from gathering information as an essential principle, from knowing to a more intimate stage, culture must turn into a behavioral reflex, into a spontaneous thinking act, into a natural mentality. Foreign language has become a fundamental subject in training non-philology students for everyday life. Contextualizing the information and introducing technological culture elements as well as humanist values of general education, the study of a foreign language through specialized language turns into a means of orientation, adaptation, transformation, and education towards reality and a world continually changing. The efforts of the foreign language teacher should be directed towards reaching that meeting point between technology and humanities.