CURSUL DE LIMBĂ STRĂINĂ - CULTURĂ TEHNICĂ ŞI CULTURĂ UMANISTĂ
THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE – TECHNICAL CULTURE AND HUMANISTIC CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a short review of similarities between humanistic culture and technical culture, pointing out the need to approach foreign language classes for engineering students as an opportunity for educating, developing skills and language performance, consolidating spiritually modeling information. Culturally, there are two fundamental dimensions an educator ideally reconciles: an objective dimension of culture as means of controlling and transforming things and a subjective dimension which refers to an inner universe, to the individual’s ancestral need to know and process knowledge. The fascination of today’s culture for the first dimension, which allows unlimited material assets, is obvious. Culture can no longer mean scholarly knowledge, encyclopedic information or even speculation. In this technocratic society, an ability to adapt to new environment by specialization, requalification or multiple qualifications is mandatory. It is here where the language teacher can play her role; she has to aspire to connect technical and humanistic culture.

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