Keyword: «metadisciplinary teaching technologies»

The article analyzes the specifics, didactic opportunities and pedagogical features of the meta-subject approach implementation in the process of learning foreign languages by journalism majors (training area 44.03.02, bachelor degree level). The relevance of the study is determined by the need to modernize the journalistic education system due to new social trends and the needs of the information society, including the process of media convergence, the emergence of new types of public relations, the inclusion of journalists in the global media space, the system of various professional communities, wide social, political and cultural activities. The purpose of this study is to justify the methodology and describe the pedagogical conditions and practical techniques for the formation of meta-subject competences of journalism majors by means of foreign language training at the university. To achieve the goal of the study, the following theoretical and empirical methods were used: analysis, synthesis and classification of scientific and pedagogical information, questionnaires, testing, pedagogical experiment, elements of content analysis, and methods of statistical processing of experimental data. The main result of the study is the identification of those universal meta-competences of future journalists that can be effectively formed in the process of learning foreign languages at the university, which was confirmed in the course of the experimental work. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the description and classification of meta-subject competences necessary for working in the public sphere and including such key personal characteristics as communicative and managerial skills, leadership qualities, teamwork ability, self-organization ability, commitment, metacognitive competences, critical and analytical thinking, skills in working with information, etc. The positive results of the experimental work carried out on the basis of the faculty of journalism of the Kuban State University and aimed at the formation of meta-competences in the process of introducing metadisciplinary teaching technologies into the system of foreign language education are of practical importance.