Technology of Students’ Professional Competences Formation While Teaching a Foreign Language

The Russian education system nowadays passes a reforming stage, influencing a transition of state standards of higher education to a competence-based format. It means definitions, classification, the contents and estimation of competences are specified. While teaching a foreign language it is possible to form and improve not only proficiency in language and culture, but professional communication of future specialists, to develop initiative personality, ability to work in a team and getting ready to life-long learning. Pedagogical monitoring of higher institutions entrants’ communicative, organizational, reflexive, informational and other general and educational skills level came back with rather low results. This paper introduces the technology of teaching a foreign language in order to form professional competences. The technology involves the use of technological cards to train self-determination, cognitive, analytical and practical abilities. For monitoring their professional competences, their levels of motivation, their progress and changes in behavior, students themselves imply the proposed indicators.