Evolution of Motives in Professional Personality Formation: Foreign Language Learning Context

The research focuses on motivational issues of educational process in modern socio-cultural environment. The aim of the paper is to investigate the rate of a professional component influence on the dynamics of motivational modifications and transformations in the process of professional personality formation. Experimental findings on the issues of modification of motives to grow professionally among technical university students, who learn professional aspects of foreign languages, are presented. In this paper the authors show how to create positive motivation to acquire the ability to use a foreign language in professional communication among engineering students. The ideas are supported with methodological instructions.