STATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND COGNITIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD OF TOURISM
The formation and development of students’ abilities to learn or foreign-language learning and cognitive skills, that is the abilities to manage their own learning activities in learning a foreign language is one of the major problems of modern language education. On the basis of surveys, questionnaires, analysis of educational policy documents, manuals the author identifies the status of development of foreign language learning and cognitive competence of future specialists in the sphere of tourism in modern conditions of University teaching foreign language. This article presents the comparison of the actual and desired state of affairs in this field.
Keywords: foreign language learning and cognitive competence, ability to learn, foreign language self-study activity of the future professionals in tourism, the analysis of educational policy documents, manuals, survey results
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Issue: 6, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER SCHOOL
Pages: 64 — 69
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