The article deals with the work of Eduard Dmitrievich Dneprov who initiated the process of overcoming the crisis in the Russian school in the mid-1980s. The article represents the stages of the reformer’s life and shows his attitude to pedagogy and education: constructive criticism and the appeal to strengthen the standards and creativity in the pedagogical science, the search for new pedagogic thinking and the mechanisms for restructuring of secondary education, faith in teachers, etc.

The article deals with teaching methods used when working with foreign language fiction films in the process of formation of communicative competence of students. The main characteristics of communicative competence are under consideration, the system of work on the film is described, the system of tasks stimulating the formation of future teacher’s communicative competence is given in the article.

The expansion of international relations has led to the increasing role of foreign language in professional activities of modern specialists. In the conditions of integration of Russia into the world community, the need for specialists in foreign language is increasing. The article deals with the features of teaching the second foreign language in Yakutia.

The article deals with the sociolinguistic competence (SLC) as the key one in the structure of foreign language communicative competence. The conceptual component of the methodological concept of “sociolinguistic competence” is under consideration. The structural components of SLC, as well as learning content are described. The methodological principles of formation of SLC are outlined in the article.

The article deals with the basic program in linguistic ecology as the conceptual foundation for linguoecological projecting in university and school philological education. The author gives a methodological review of some key concepts, because the linguoecological approach is based on their common aspects.

The article deals with the linguistic and cultural methods of representation of figurative comparisons in fiction texts to foreign language students (based on “The Inspector” by N.V. Gogol). The linguocultural commentaries of fixed and author’s individual comparisons are suggested in the article.

The article deals with the research results regarding the issues of evaluation of methodological competence of physics teachers aimed at finding out the professional difficulties of teachers in accordance with the requirements of the professional standard “Teacher”. The evaluation of formation of methodological competence is based on personal and motivational, cognitive, active and behavioral criteria. The diagnostic tools are described, the levels of development of methodological competence are characterized; they are basic, optimal and creative.

The article is based on the author’s reference materials, Russian teachers and psychologists’ views, and it deals with the author’s understanding of the conditions of formation of teacher’s innovation competence within the in-school training. The set that integrates managerial, psychological and pedagogic conditions influencing the formation of the competence is found out and proved.

The article deals with the implementation of the competence-based approach through the method of synectics in the learning process. Besides developing the skills of making unconventional decisions in situations of uncertainty, the use of this method allows better assimilation of information, its storage in long term memory, as well as the development of associative thinking; it has been proved in experimental research.

Professionally significant personal qualities are of particular importance in teacher’s work. The article deals with professionally significant qualities of future teachers on the basis of authors’ approaches to their concepts. The humanistic orientation of pedagogic activity contributes to the formation of professional qualities of a future teacher.

The article deals with the basic approaches to acquiring the value attitude to motherhood in Russia in the second half of XIX - early XX centuries. They are biological and social approaches. The priorities in family and motherhood in the conditions of the changing society are determined. The components including the value attitude to motherhood are described. The main value ideas about the preparation of a future mother in Russia are identified. The names of the researchers working on this issue are represented in the article.

The article deals with the search for value and meaning and practical guidelines of fatherhood described by the author as the problematic segment of modern family education. The information about the aspects of research of fatherhood phenomenon is under consideration in the article. The monographic analysis of the pedagogical heritage of A.S. Makarenko is carried out; based on this analysis the original topology of the guidelines of paternal education is summarized.

The article deals with the model of pedagogic support of emotional and expressive development of preschool children, the key idea of which is to help a child in the individual emotional and expressive development. The author proves the necessity of pedagogic support of emotional and expressive development of preschool children in the aspect of implementation of the Federal state educational standard of preschool education.

The article deals with the issue of education at the present stage of reforming of the Russian society in the context of the historical concept of humanism. Special attention is paid to the younger generation, who are influenced by the existential crisis. The main factors contributing to the addictive behavior of underage people, presented as the result of the analysis of researches of psychologists, sociologists, teachers, are outlined in the article.

Functioning of the signs of the negative intellectual evaluation in the position of a parenthesis is researched on the basis of the corpus linguistics. It is stated that the intellectual evaluation is complicated by the ethical reflexes and desiderative evaluations, as well as various secondary emotions, the specific nature of which depends on the type of the communicative context.

The article deals with the phenomenon of expressive asymmetry of the original language and the language of translation in the aspect of the cognitive and discursive approach. It is proved that the translated text is a variety of the mental model of the original text objectified in a foreign language. By the example of the poems by A. Dragomoshchenko and its translation, the cases of conceptual equivalence and non-equivalence of the corresponding segments of the semantic content are under consideration.

The article deals with the issues of the role of neomythonyms and author’s myth appellatives in creation of the artistic image in science fiction of the XX-XXI centuries.

The article deals with the issues of the development of major trends in the modern domestic and foreign translation studies in the field of literary translation, which are the basis for the original author’s methodology of the comparative analysis of the original and the translated texts based on the thematic stratification of the text.

The article deals with the cognitive and pragmatic aspect of the use of phrasemes in the poem by S. Yesenin “Anna Snegina”. Objectifying the range of information not only of the rational but also of the emotional character, phraseological units are involved in creating the cohesion of the image of a character, verbalize a fragment of the conceptual sphere of the narrator and other characters, and thus the conceptual sphere of the author of the poem.

The article deals with the modern occasionalisms which are the result of the conceptual integration. It is appropriate to differentiate vulgarisms, slang and jargon words, as well as linguocynisms in the occasional vocabulary of the modern Russian language. The stylistic differentiation of the modern occasional vocabulary helps to fill communication lacunas, reflects the linguistic and creative human activity and the tendency to linguistic economy.

The article deals with some key issues of phraseology, concerning the classification of phraseological units and stating the boundaries of the phraseological fund. The author considers the classification of H. Burger to be the most comprehensive and adequate to the modern state of the German language phraseology. The examined cases indicate the need to study the nominations that were considered to be marginal in practice of teaching foreign language and culture.

The article aims to identify the lexical and grammatical devices of expressing modality of possibility and impossibility in English newspapers. The subjective and evaluative factors in the fragments under consideration are proved to form the ideological system of views and values in reader’s mind. The linguistic devices with the seme of possibility / impossibility represented by modal verbs increase the effect. Based on the linguistic analysis, the modality of possibility / impossibility in newspaper articles has pragmatic meaning.

The article deals with the approaches to definitions and classifications of world views. The notions of the African world view developed by L.J. Meyers are summarized. There is a link between the African and Afro-American world views based on the works by an Afro-American writer A. Randall “The Wind Done Gone”.

The article deals with the stereotypes of rain in the Russian and Chinese languages. The associative vectors are identified in the complex analysis of fixed expressions with the component of rain and - in Chinese - the character 雨 and the materials of the National corpus of the two languages that allows installing the common and the different in understanding of this natural phenomenon in the Chinese and Russian cultures.

The article deals with the basic verbal characteristics of the Chinese and Russian medical and cosmetic media advertisement based on the video and printed media texts. It is proved that in the Chinese and Russian linguistic cultures the grammatical and lexico-stylistic devices contribute to creating a vivid, accurate, convincing medical and cosmetic media advertisement, the purpose of which is to motivate the recipient to buy the advertised product or service.

The article deals with the eschatological sense of the first volume of “Dead Souls”. It is shown that the universal spiritual mortification, which turns the characters into soulless flesh, is the necessary boundary of spiritual resurrection not only of the characters of the poem, but of the entire Russian world. It is based on the transformation of the separated from each other and therefore motionless figures in the universal and eternal vortex movement of Russia - “non-overtaken troika”.

The article deals with the functioning of poetic images of A. Blok in the fiction world by V. Shalamov. The comparative aspect is implemented in the process of including the series “The Spell by Fire and Darkness” in the context of the novel “Unconverted”. It is attempted to expand the modern tropology by means of the concept of evocativeness that allows us to characterize the aesthetic and axiological guidelines of the authors in their uniqueness.

The article rebuts the view that the works by F.N. Gorenstein are characterized by pessimistic attitude. The late novel “The Flying Airplane” (1994) is under consideration. It is concluded that F.N. Gorenstein often refers to the techniques and forms characteristic of the Jewish humor tradition, among which there is irony, self-criticism, the tendency to paradoxical judgments, “religious” and black humor.

The article deals with the notion “religious landscape” in the domestic science. The authors suggest new theoretical and methodological approaches to research based on the wave theory of substance structure and the institutional approach. It is stated that this complex geo-cultural and historical phenomenon is only beginning to be researched.

Based on the new archival sources, the article deals with the establishment of the pension system, which is an important component of the social policy in the Republic in the first decade of the Soviet power. Various forms of social support are characterized in this aspect: pensions, allowances, rations to families of the red army soldiers, etc. Both success and difficulties are under consideration.

The article deals with banditry and desertion, their increased public danger in the wartime conditions, the analysis of criminal legislation and normative basis that regulates the activity of the organs of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs - People’s Commissariat for State Security of the USSR in struggle against these crimes. The author studies the factors that contributed to the commission of these crimes, examines the basic measures to eliminate these violations.

The article deals with the reasons for further reformation of the system of spiritual education in the Russian Orthodox Church, the features of the transformation of clergy training in the development of a common curriculum. The author gives the assessment of the content of the theological and classical components of training of bachelor able to withstand the challenges of time.

The article deals with the results of historiographic analysis of cooperation between Russia and the CIS countries in the cultural and educational sphere in 1990-2000s. The basic directions and results of historical research of the issue are under consideration.