Keyword: «foreign language communication competence»

The article is devoted to the problem of organization of Student Olympiads as one of the effective forms of extracurricular work of university students. The article describes the experience of organizing the Foreign Languages Olympiad movement at Omsk State Agricultural University. The study allows to come to a conclusion about the effectiveness of the Foreign Languages Chair instructors’ work for organizing the extracurricular activities of students.

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using communicative exercises and creative tasks when teaching English to second-year Education majors (Primary education and the English language). Reasons for extensive use of creative tasks are highlighted, examples of various exercises and tasks done at the lessons when dealing with the topic “Clothes. Style. Fashion” are given and ways of performing them are described.

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using creative tasks when teaching English to third-year Education majors (Primary education and the English language). Reasons for extensive use of creative tasks are highlighted, examples of various exercises and tasks done at the lessons when revising the topic “Personality” are given and ways of performing them are described.

The article deals with the problem of learning, improving and maintaining a high level of foreign language proficiency by adults who have completed formal general and vocational education in appropriate educational institutions in the process of informal foreign language acquisition in the context of life-long education. The authors provide an analytical review of previously published scientific papers on the topic, present the results obtained in the course of empirical part of the research work, thus confirming high didactic potential of informal foreign language learning, as well as possibility of achieving the highest level of language proficiency provided that self-organized informal education is combined with formal and nonformal forms of educational activity while being at school and university, which lays the foundation for further self-study in the field of foreign language acquisition in the long term.