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Modern methods of teaching foreign languages in non-linguistic universities are determined by the need to effectively combine language and professional training that meets the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education (FSES HE). The key goal of this system is to develop students’ skills in understanding professionally-oriented information and developing the competence to communicate in a foreign language in professional situations.The article discusses issues related to the formation of professionally oriented lexical competence among students of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Maikop State Technological University» in the training program «Technosphere Safety». The study emphasizes the relevance of the topic, since when studying a professional foreign language it is impossible to develop lexical competence without the ability to work with thesaurus in one’s professional field.The goal of the research is to clarify the methods of developing professionally-oriented lexical competence among students of non-linguistic universities in the training program 20.03.01 «Technosphere Safety» in the process of reading texts in the specialty in English. The extent to which it is necessary to select lexical material and compile an individual thesaurus with a professional focus is assessed, which allows students to better understand professional texts, expand their vocabulary and accurately use professional terminology.Professionally oriented texts were the research material; linguistic and lexical units were analyzed, the skill of developing lexical competence among students was practiced.The research is based on complex research methods, consisting of theoretical methods (deductive analysis, method of statistical work with lexical material, comparative analysis) and empirical methods (observation method and data analysis).As a result of the research, a strategy for working on vocabulary when reading professionally oriented texts has been proposed, and the most effective exercises for developing lexical competence among students in the training program «Technosphere Safety» have been identified.Key conclusions: the formation of professionally oriented lexical competence among students of non-linguistic universities when working with foreign language texts on the topic «Technosphere Security» helps to analyze the information received and to form lexical competence and the skill of using an individual terminological thesaurus in the professional field, expanding the vocabulary in the specialty.

In the conditions of constant renewal of the modern education, the development of methods for increasing the efficiency of developing professional competencies in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university becomes relevant.It is necessary to resolve the contradiction caused by the exclusion of translation from mod- ern teaching methods and the reserves of methods using translation. The problem of the research is to introduce tasks using the native language into modern methods of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university.The purpose of the research is to clarify the role of translation in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. The article reveals the essence of translation in foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university, reveals the psychological mechanism of mastering a foreign language and the place of translation in this process, assesses the degree of necessity of using bilingual exercises in professional teaching of a foreign language.The provisions on the natural conformity of the learning process made up the methodological basis of the research. The methods of comparison, analysis, observation were used in the work, a pedagogical experiment was carried out. Maikop State Technological University acted as an experimental base.The essence of the concept of «translation» in the methodology of foreign language teaching has been determined; a model of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university developed; a textbook has been compiled. It has been concluded that the development of professional competence of students of a non-linguistic university in terms of «foreign language business communication» will be more effective if introduced into the system of foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university, a model of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university using translation as a method and purpose of teaching.

The application of educational translation in a certain degree belongs to all main aims of learning Russian among foreign philologists-specialists in Russian philology. The successful application of educational translation in many respects depends on degree of compliance to subjective interests of students. Different types of educational translation are widely applied to satisfaction of certain motives of language studying: informative, subject and functional, esthetic, entertaining, etc. The proper correlation of educational translation, monolingual speech training and practice promotes formation of the necessary motivational base which improves the studying process in whole.