Tatyana V. Ryabova

Modern foreign language education is aimed at training a specialist with a sufficiently high level of proficiency in a foreign language to solve professional tasks, which should be ensured by the use of various traditional and innovative methods and approaches in both classroom and extracurricular work. The teaching and educational opportunities of extracurricular activities considered in the article correspond to the main trends in education and determine its relevance. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of extracurricular work in teaching a foreign language at a military aviation University. The works of domestic and foreign scientists on the issue under study served as the methodological basis. The most significant approaches for the study were competence-based, professionally oriented and personal activity-oriented approaches, as well as the idea of the inseparable connection between the learning process and the process of educating the student's personality. The authors propose a scientific justification for organizational approaches to defining goals, choosing forms and methods of extracurricular activities that should stimulate the development of students' universal competences, including communication, intercultural interaction, self-organization and self-development, teamwork and leadership, project design and implementation, as well as contribute to the development of a creative personality and spiritual, moral qualities. Foreign language communicative competence is considered by the authors as one of the most important components of the professional competency among modern aviation specialists. As a result, the main forms of extracurricular work in a non-linguistic university are described, depending on the level of cadets’ language training. A theoretical contemplation of the extracurricular work importance in teaching a foreign language and the practical use of the research results will make it possible to build up communicative competence more effectively. The practical significance of the research was reflected in the development and testing of scenarios for conducting extracurricular activities in a foreign language, publication of joint articles based on completed research, the results of training and participation of cadets in foreign language Olympiads which were organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Krasnodar Higher Military Flight School.

Modern education is aimed at forming an initiative, creative person who is able to acquire knowledge independently and use it for solving interpersonal and professional tasks. The project methodology considered in the article corresponds to new trends in education that determine its relevance. The purpose of the study is to determine the main aspects of the organization of project-based learning technology to increase the level of formation of foreign language communicative competence and stimulate cognitive activity of students. To achieve this goal, the competence approach was used as the main one. The author also notes the personality-oriented nature of the method, its educational potential and positive impact on the educational and cognitive independence of students, which contributes to the productive assimilation of educational material and increases motivation in learning. The advantages and disadvantages of using the project method are clarified. The advantages of the method are the involvement of students in research activities using modern computer technologies, individualization of the learning process with simultaneous learning in cooperation, integration of knowledge from various fields, which gives a complete picture of the world, and improvement of communicative competence in all types of speech activities, taking into account the level of training. The methodological basis was the work of domestic and foreign scientists on the issue under study. Methods of theoretical analysis and synthesis, comparison and interpretation, study of project activity products and its characteristic features in a non-linguistic University were used. The article describes the essence of the method, its types, stages of work on the project, and the possibilities of its application in classroom and extracurricular work when teaching a language. The role of the teacher in the organization of project activities is clarified. The author offers examples of project tasks for the formation of communicative and socio-cultural competences in a non-linguistic University depending on the level of language training of students. The theoretical understanding of the project method and the practical use of the research results will allow us to form the communicative competence of students in a foreign language more effectively and develop their educational and cognitive independence.

The article deals with the problem of organization and assessment of research activities at the foreign lan-guages department. Types of scientific research, internal and external motives for research activities and main directions of research work are described. The author comes to the conclusion that in assessing the quality of scientific work the complex of interrelated parameters should be taken into consideration.