MODERNIZATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AS A FACTOR OF INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The need to provide a new level of professional education for graduates of Russian universities is accompanied by increased requirements for the quality of mass foreign language training for non-linguistic students. The purpose of the article is to analyze the weaknesses and strengths of modern language training, to consider possible options for modernizing the system of foreign language education in non-linguistic universities. The data of experimental training of students of Petrozavodsk State University in a unified foreign-language educational environment are presented. The author offers a set of unified approaches to the formation of students' communicative competence as well as a systemof unified evaluation of the quality of education. It is concluded that it is necessary to continue searching for innovative ways to modernize the foreign language education of non-linguist students in order to ensure high-quality training of the personnel potential of Russian regions.

Key words: modernization, foreign language training, non-linguistic students, model of a unified language environment.

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