Abstract:
The authorshave analyzed the concept of «continuing professional education» by means of definitions and
theories developed by native and foreign scientists, and characterized the principles for functioning of continuing
education system, the general tendencies and specific approaches for teaching foreign languages in the
system of continuous foreign language education. The postulates of educational strategy «Life-long learning»
have been introduced in correlation to the concepts of polylingual education. The principles and problems of
continuing education determined by external factors of society, technology and economy progress, by geopolitical
conditions, socio-cultural traditions and different tendencies to influencing education development are
presented as the prerequisites of problem at issue. There is provided overviewing the researches referred to
the problems of foreign language professional training in the context of continuous learning; in the article
there are considered various approaches for studying the system of continuing professional education regarding
to the practice of continuous and successive foreign language education, and characterized the methodical
aspects of functioning of continuous foreign language education system. There are consistently specified the
problems of developing the strategy of continuing professional education and conditions for realizing the idea
of continuing polylingual education on the basis of continuity principles of the content, educational process
and organizational support. The authors prove theoretical prerequisites for implementation of pedagogical
model of continuing polylingual education with continuity as an attribute characteristic for complete and consistent
educational process.
