Keyword: «professional pedagogical competence»

The article discusses specifications of Federal State Educational Standard of High Education and the conditions of implementing the Master’s Programme “Professionally-oriented Foreign Language Competence in the Humanities” in the Field of “Pedagogical Education”, realized by the Chair of Foreign Languages, Department of History and International Relations, Ryazan State University named after S. Esenin. The programme realizes two types of activity: pedagogical and research activity, forming the relevant skills through disciplines of the basic and variable blocks and elective courses. Implementation of the extramural form programme is facilitated by the use of distance learning courses, which can improve professional foreign language competence.