Teaching foreign language for professional purposes is subjected to constant alterations, following changes in the standards of language teaching and new teaching techniques focused on taking linguistic actions. In the past decades, it has evolved from lexically-oriented didactics of specialist texts to open forms of teaching, taking into account actual communicative and action needs resulting from the execution of specific professional tasks. More and more frequent consideration of requirements stated in competence profiles for specific occupations in course programmes influences even broader integration of knowledge and technical competence with linguistic actions taken in the social context. The article provides an overview of the develo...