Skill Conversion: The Life-Long Foreign-language Education In The System of Continuing Professional Education

The new socio-economic and political situations require the implementation of a language policy in the field of language education aimed at satisfying both public and personal needs. With the implementation of the new language policy, the creation of a flexible system of languages and the conditions for their study, as well as a variation of forms and means of teaching, reflects the current state of the theory and practice of teaching a foreign language. In this regard, the foreign language in the system of continuing professional education has acquired a broad scale. The purpose of this study is to systematize the experience of creating a model of life-long foreign-language education in the system of continuing professional education, describing it through the prism of theoretical and methodological approaches. The model needs to be characterized, firstly, to comprehend what was done and outline the next steps in improving the system, and secondly, it will be useful for managers working in continuing professional education. This article can be beneficial for the learners, who prefer to know from which approaches educational programs and courses are built, which they still choose or have already chosen for training.