THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND ESP IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALISTS
Journal: Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes
Year: 2025

As it is known culture is divided into the following sub-fields: national culture, professional culture and organizational culture. National culture conditions collective mental programming or “software of the mind” (Hofstede, 2001), i.e. the way of thinking of people of one and the same nation and, consequently, professionals belonging to this nation. Organizational culture specifies norms of behavior of professionals of one certain field from organizational point of view. Professional culture