Keyword: «emotiology»

The development of emotional intelligence as one of the universal (soft) skills of future specialists is especially important for representatives of socionomic professions associated with social interaction and active communicative activities. Modern journalism belongs to this type of professions. Pedagogical experience shows that development of emotional intelligence among future journalists can be successfully carried out during their studies in higher education institutions. The discipline «foreign language» as a communicative socially oriented sphere of educational activities has a wide didactic potential in this context. The primacy in the study of emotional intelligence traditionally belongs to the psychological sciences, however, in recent years (2018-2022), representatives of the pedagogical community have also turned to the issues under consideration, although pedagogical studies on the topic under consideration are still few. The purpose of this publication is a theoretical substantiation of the possibility to develop the emotional intelligence of university students (in particular, journalism majors) by means of linguodidactic technologies in the process of mastering the sphere of professionally-oriented foreign language discourse by students. The leading methodological approach to interpreting the problem of developing the emotional intelligence of student journalists in a foreign language class was the combined use of pedagogical and linguistic approaches – the interdisciplinary, axiological, competence-based, linguocultural, and emotive ones. The author presents the results of a pedagogical experiment aimed at identifying the potentials of using linguodidactic methods in order to form the key emotional intelligence components of undergraduate students of the faculty of journalism in the process of foreign language learning. The study substantiates the connection between the emotional intelligence of a person and the development of language, speech, culture, and communication skills. The obtained theoretical conclusions and practical results can be useful for teachers-researchers, psychologists, instructors of language disciplines in higher school institutions, as well as for undergraduate and graduate students in the area of training «Journalism».