Rzetelność źródeł informacji a trafność treści nauczania w planowaniu kursu języka obcego dla potrzeb zawodowych

Changes in the contemporary world affect the evolution of the foreign language teacher profession, its role and the required competences. In addition to his/her traditional teaching activity, the foreign language teacher must often undertake pre-learning tasks such as designing the curriculum, developing teaching techniques and didactic materials. This is illustrated particularly well with the example of a specialist language teacher. Hence, it is necessary to modify and/or redefine the curricula of language teacher training (including LSP teachers). The aim of the present paper is to reflect on the current role of an LSP teacher and his/her competencies required in the needs analysis process for developing a language training program for professional purposes. Starting from the needs analysis, we will consider the tasks specific for the activity of an LSP teacher and the sources of information which he/she should explore in order to design the curriculum content. We base the present reflection on our professional experience in training French language teachers in Poland.