Keyword: «foreign language training»

The article represents the role and justification of the formation of students’ sociocultural competence in the educational process. A questionnaire was prepared and conducted to determine the level of sociocultural competence. The article describes the results of a survey of bachelor students of the “International Relations” course regarding their understanding of sociocultural competence. The empirical study revealed the difference in the formation of sociocultural competence between students of different courses.

In the proposed article the author explores the question how the change of political course in the USSR by N.S. Khrushchev led to the development of various methods in foreign-language education. In particular, a review of the approaches used at the Higher Courses of Foreign Languages of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR is given, which are still quite modern and their appeal can benefit in the training of diplomatic personnel.

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».

The article analyzes the role of the English language in the formation of the professional competence of cadets who specialize in psychology. The terminological system of psychological science includes a substantial number of English borrowings. English borrowings in the field of psychology can be combined into thematic groups: names of scientific concepts and research directions; names of techniques used in psychology; concepts related to human relationships; names of psychological conditions, disorders; characteristics, abilities, and behavioral traits of individuals. Knowledge of professionally oriented English allows students to understand complex psychological concepts more accurately, to broaden professional horizons of future psychologists