Keyword: «иностранный язык»

The article discusses the prospects for the development of foreign language learning using distance learning technologies against the backdrop of the recession of the pandemic in Russia and around the world. An analysis is made of the means and new ways of teaching disciplines in the study of foreign languages, as well as a forecast of their further development using distance learning technologies in the post-pandemic period.

The article describes the author's system for constructing practical classes in a foreign language at a technical university. The criteria according to which the typology of practical classes is carried out are revealed. Four types of practical classes are offered: familiarization-training, preliminary-speech, proper-speech, generalizing-control. It is noted that work on this system of constructing practical classes can significantly increase their effectiveness, improve the quality of teaching students of a technical university a foreign language.

Based on the analysis of scientific educational sources and own experience of foreign language teaching at a technical university, the author tries to represent the specific features that characterize the formation of undergraduate students’ universal competences in the process of foreign language learning. The universal competences of the new generation educational standards that have replaced the so-called general cultural competences are regarded as the foundation of students’ further individual, social and professional development that determines their potential success in the future. The article examines such issues as the composition of components of the universal competences, content interconnections among them; it also describes and provides real-life practical examples of a substantial potential of a foreign language as a curriculum subject that provides for their effective development.