Abstract
The article is aimed at covering the empirical research results of motivational criterion of foreign language training of future social sphere specialists. The research also grounds the necessity of taking into account motivational and axiological components of foreign language training in the process of implementing the content of student’s professional training. The article explores prevailing types of motivation of young people in education and professional activity. The levels of personal, social, business orientation of future social sphere specialists are diagnosed in the research through analyzing selfish, prestigious, personal, communicative, altruistic, group, pracsical and cognitive motives. The correlation of external and internal motivation of the students under study is characterized. The conclusion of the research emphasizes on the need of taking into account learning motives and activity of future specialists through organization of purposeful conditions of foreign language training. These conditions include modern teaching methods and forms and are aimed at development of conscious business inner motivation of youth.