Keyword: «learning stages»

This article defines the concept of soft skills, talks about the importance and necessity of developing these skills among students in the 21st century. There are five main skills: self-organization, communicative communication (verbal and non-verbal), research skills, social skills (work in groups, in pairs, communication with teachers and students), thinking skills (critical thinking, metacognitive thinking, etc.). The article describes certain strategies for developing these skills in teaching English.