The article deals with the approaches to the formation of vocational pedagogical orientation and competence of students. The issue is relevant due to the fact that a large percentage of students enter pedagogical universities not for the sake of a future profession, but for other reasons. Purposeful work in this direction will help to solve this problem. One of the effective technologies is the technology of creative teamwork. It develops students’ activity, creativity, organizational skills, which contributes to the formation of their vocational competence.

The article presents the analysis of the approaches to understanding the structure of competence as the subject of assessment in the process of mastering a university educational programme. It proves the expediency of application and correct combination of the strategies of the modular, formative, cumulative, authentic, automatized and summative assessment of competences during the training period at the university.

The article deals with the process of training professional staff to organize music and educational work with various age groups. The educational practice of a university is focused on the formation of a wide range of vocational competences, and communication skills play a special role among them. In the context of formation of readiness for musical and educational activities of a future teacher of music, the article presents the experience of successful organization and functioning of the student philharmonic as a creative association of students and teachers.

The article deals with the role of the intellectual structures in the development of the processes of adaptation of cadets of military higher schools. The choice of the necessary intellectual strategy by the cadet is caused by the need to solve the problems of team interaction arising in the process of vocational adaptation of cadets. In this article, the choice of adaptation strategy means the choice of the strategy of the intellectual activity in the context of the opposition “assimilation - accommodation”.

The article deals with the media culture in the lives of modern students. Based on the previous scientific research in the field of media culture and media education, it presents the study of the features of media use of students of touristic professions. Based on the questionnaire results, the level of media culture of future specialists in the sphere of tourism at the initial stage of experimental work has been established.

The article deals with the theoretical substantiation, development and testing of the model of vocation-oriented creativity of engineers in the conditions of polycontext training. It presents the analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, the analysis of traditional and innovative pedagogical experience. The concept of “polycontext training” is substantiated, the didactic potential of its application in vocational training are under consideration in the article.

The article deals with the directions of implementation of scientific research activities of ecology students by means of mathematics: solution of tasks of professional environmental orientation, publication of scientific results, work on applied research projects. Special attention is paid to this direction, as in the research process students create objectively new scientific knowledge and master the structure of scientific research activities.

The article deals with the issue of formation of first-year students’ readiness to study mathematics at the university. The content and structure of the concept of such readiness are described. The author presents the model of the method of formation of first-year students’ readiness to study mathematics at the university and describes its components: target, methodological, procedural, resultative and evaluative.

The article considers particular linguo-didactic principles of the grammatical competence development as exemplified in the complex grammatical phenomena of the Spanish language as the second foreign language and substantiated from the conceptual and situational-technological positions. Special principles form the theoretical basis for teaching complex grammatical phenomena of the second foreign language.

The article deals with the experience of developing effective listening skills of University students as part of the disciplines “Rhetoric” and “Russian Language and Culture of Speech” by inclusion of students in the active, conscious activities on the critical analysis of public speeches and discussion of issues in the form of debates.

The use of advertising material in English lessons meets the requirements for the listening classes at the secondary education level. English advertising texts correspond to the principle of authenticity of the language material and is characterized by short duration and medium tempo. An advertising text has a number of linguistic features that determine the success of perception and the subsequent use of the material.

The article deals with the issue of formation of metadisciplinary learning outcomes, the role of project-based learning in their formation based on the integrative approach. The content of the universal nature of project skills of students is under consideration. The authors describe the features of the organization of integrated projects at the content and technological levels, give examples of integrated projects.

The article deals with the cultural and ecological approach, which promotes environmental geographical education at the methodological level in the context of the ideas of the ecological culture. It presents the theoretical and methodological aspects of this approach and the educational practice of its implementation in the local lore geoecological club. It describes the essence of the cultural ecological approach and the features of changes in the target, content and technological components of geographical education in its context.

The article considers the relevance of environmental education, determines the scientific and theoretical basis of additional environmental education, presents the stages of development of the environmental culture in the basic and additional training programs, characterizes the environmental self-education and training and its regulatory framework in modern secondary school in the framework of additional education.

The article deals with the concept and typology of disadvantaged families, as well as the factors affecting the improper performance of duties on education of minors, goals, objectives, principles of work with disadvantaged families. The levels and technology of preventive work with disadvantaged families are under consideration in the article. It describes the potential of explanatory conversations with parents about the legal aspects of parents’ responsibilities for education of children.

The article presents the analysis of the transformation processes of the lexical and phraseological systems of the Russian language due to the transformations at the social, economic, political and cultural levels in the 1990s. The transformation processes at the lexical and phraseological levels are considered in close connection with the factors of non-linguistic reality. The trends and mechanisms of the emergence of new lexical and phraseological units, as well as the dynamics of internal processes representing the changes are under consideration in the article.

The article considers the implementation of the reflective categories in the Russian language. Based on the example of the category of locativity, it presents the potential to convey various meanings both at the lexical and syntactical levels. Special attention is paid to the context and verbal situation as the factors determining the modus.

The article presents the analysis of the linguistic implementation of the symbol “home” in the meaning “home as a human body” - dialecticisms combining the meanings “the detail of the hut” and “the part of the human body”. The symbol is presented as 1) a semantic-semiotic productive model that generates language variants, 2) a secondary reflex that arose from the experience left by the primary, unconditional human reflexes (V.M. Bekhterev) that determine the semantics of words and their choice.

The article presents the analysis of onomastic units associated with the military events of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. It describes the characteristics of the field structure, identifies the connection between constituents, considers the features of the semantics of central constituents. For naming the units under consideration, the term “militarionym” is proposed, the expediency to use it scientifically is proved in the article.

The article deals with the features of the author’s linguistic personality in the fiction discourse. An attempt is made to highlight the author’s linguistic paradigm in the discourse of an American writer John Updike. Based on the methods of linguostatistics, it presents the analysis of the lexical structure of the text allowing to reveal some features of the linguistic competence of the author.

The article presents the observations of the transformations taking place in the social categories of modus in the comic context. It determines the main markers of such transformations, which can be found in various structural parts of the etiquette discourse, as well as the reasons for these processes and the leading communicatively relevant features of the addressee, which are under consideration.

The article deals with the communicative strategies and the ways to achieve their effectiveness in interpersonal discussions. There are four basic communication strategies that correspond to the classical dispute based on the goal: a dispute aimed to find the truth, a dispute aimed to persuade, a dispute aimed to win, a dispute aimed to dispute. The article presents the communicative strategies in everyday interpersonal discussions as reflected in the works by Russian and English authors: M.Y. Lermontov, O. Wilde, J. Austen, A. Huxley, F.K. Sologub, A.P. Chekhov.

The vision of the world, which appears in the artistic text, represents the aesthetic traditions of the ethno-cultural community, but is also mediated by the author’s personal meanings, his conception of the role of the surrounding world realities. The complex of linguocultural units used by M. Bulgakov in the story “Heart of a Dog” forms the cultural background of the epoch. The article deals with the words - the names of the clothes of the characters (“leather jacket”, “hood”, “galoshes”, etc.) and the degree of adequacy of their translation into Chinese.

Synonymy in the majority of cases is represented by derivative words. The derivative synonyms are proposed to explore by means of semantic transformation of the derivation square - the synonymous square. Such squares differ in characteristic obligatory and optional criteria, and depending on reproduction of synonymic relations of producing words by derivatives they are divided into reflected and quasi-reflected ones.

The article deals with the slang, which is becoming a certain universal code of social dialogue in the communicative practice of foreign students. Representing a multi-level semantic structure, it interprets the linguistic picture of the youth environment from the point of the world-view, ideological and philosophical forms of reflection of reality and justifies the need to develop the communicative learning strategies aimed to take into consideration various “organic parts” of student communication.

The article deals with the political Internet discourse as a specific form of communication. It specifies the concepts of “political discourse” and “political Internet discourse”, as well as describes their similarities and differences in terms of system-forming features and cognitive-discursive activity of communication participants.

The article deals with the features of nonverbal communication involving various parts of the human body aimed to express various emotional states in the process of intercultural communication. It describes the repertoire of lexical units, word combinations and phraseological phrases, which convey a certain meaning of gesture or body movement in the analyzed languages. The national cultural similarities and differences in the three languages are described in the article.

The article deals with the grammatical features of the Nizhnekatrukhsky dialect, in particular the declension of pronouns, which is significantly different from the corresponding systems of the Azerbaijani and Turkish languages. The purpose of this analysis is the study and identification of regularities of formation and use of pronouns in the Nizhnekatrukhsky dialect. The article presents all categories of pronouns of the Nizhnekatrukhsky dialect.

The article presents the analysis of the angelic imagery in Nabokov’s early poems in line with its connection with mortality. It considers the opposition “bright angels vs fallen”, their portrait characteristics and functions (protection, meeting after death, introduction to temptation, intimidation, destruction, etc.). The compliance of Nabokov’s angelic imagery with the Christian canon is also analyzed in the article.

The article deals with the principles of the aesthetic concept of the first Yakut playwright and the creator of the national theatre Anempodist Sofronov as reflected in his theatrical critical articles. The main principles of the concept of the national theatre and drama are democracy, nationality and realism. It is stated that the formation of the theoretical views of Alampa was influenced by the programme ideas of the playwright and reformer of the Russian theatre A.N. Ostrovsky.

Vysotsky’s song “Tyumen Oil” (1972), which combines the features of the poet’s songs of the previous period (late 1960s) about the people of courageous professions and his satirical (genre) songs of the same time, opens in his lyrics the possibility of synthesis of “high” and “low” in the field of the ontological poetry of the “Hamlet” period (early 1970s) and anticipates the gallery of his later works (“It Was an Error”, “Two Fates”, etc.).

The article deals with the novels, which can be called “international” due to their wide spread around the world in terms of globalization processes. The ability of one national novel to penetrate into different cultural paradigms proves the blurred national cultural identity, the formation of a single global society and detraditionalization of relations. Detraditionalization also concerns gender roles in the mass literature. The article presents the examples of finding such masculine features as cruelty, strong-willed activity, freedom from public morality by modern female characters.

Based on the analysis of the works by N.P. Makarov, a scientist and a member of the cooperative movement of the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods, thearticle deals with his contribution to the study of history and development of the theory of cooperation.

Based on the analysis of the periodicals of the 1920s, the article considersthe features of reflection in the materials of the regional press in the period of the new economic policy of the domestic policy of the state, the features of the economic and cultural development.

The article deals with the establishment of pedagogical universities of the Lower Volga region in the 1930s. The author analyzes the features of the organization of institute work, highlights the characteristic features of their development, traces the impact of the state educational policy on the reform of the system of management of teacher training universities.

Based on the analysis of the archival material and periodicals, the article considers the excursion activity as a form of cultural and mass leisure, as well as the factors of its development in the region. It describes the most popular forms and directions of Stalingrad - Volgograd residents and guests of the city and region. Summarizing the documentary material allowed to characterize the state, content and problems in the organization of the excursion business.

The article deals with the features of development of the international inbound and outbound tourism in Russia and Azerbaijan in the aspect of touristic cooperation between the two countries, shows the dynamics in the number of arrivals of foreign tourists in Russia and Azerbaijan in the XXI century.It presents the factors contributing to and hindering the development of tourism in Azerbaijan and the growth of tourist trips of Russian citizens in AR. The prospects of various types of tourism for Russian tourists in Azerbaijan are under consideration.

The article deals with the geography, history of study and the environmental condition of the Guselsky-Teterevyatsky ridge - the highest in the Volgograd region and one of the highest in the Volga upland. This priority in the modern era belongs to Volgograd geographers, including the staff of the geography and geoecologydepartment of the VSSPU.

Based onthe operational reports and the correspondence stored in the archives, the article presents the analysis of political sentiments of prisoners of war. It considers the way the political sentiments of prisoners of war werecontrolledby means of the secret service work and censorship of correspondence.