Formation of "soft" skills in the educational university space while teaching foreign languages

Abstract

The article analyses the appropriate methodological approaches in which the ideas of forming and developing of flexible skills can be applied in seminars and tutorials in such disciplines as "Foreign language", "Foreign language in the professional sphere", "Business foreign language" implementing at the university. The formation and development of flexible skills in such disciplines on the one hand, as an independent learning goal, involves the development of a range of skills necessary for the implementation of various types of activities, and on the other hand, as a means of developing foreign-language communicative competence, increasing the students level of foreign-language socialization. Technologies for the development of critical thinking and problem-based learning, project activities, learning in collaboration, case studies, a rotational model of mixed learning. can be applied for the formation and development of flexible skills at the university.