Traditions and innovations in the methodology of teaching English in higher school

Pokrovskaia Natalia Vladimirovna

The article deals with the main traditional and innovative trends in the modern development of the foreign language training system in the Russian higher education. It considers the foreign language communicative competence as a necessary component of the professional competency of students, a variety of foreign languages studied, specifics of teaching students English as the language of international communication, the system of foreign language training at university as a part of continuous language education in the life-long education model, diversification of programs in teaching English. The author pays special attention to the traditional (project method) and innovative (collaborative student learning) methods of teaching English.

Keywords:foreign language communicative competence; training in foreign languages at university; project; project activity; startup; collaboration; collaborative learning.