Abstract:

The paper analyses pedagogical conditions of responsibility and the ability to work in a team formation among students in the learning process. The authors consider transferrable skills to be a component of professional competence of a specialist in any field. The relevance of this study is explained primarily by the economic, political and social situation in the modern society in which a specialist has to transfer across various jobs and industries. Moreover, the trend of a lifelong learning, spread throughout the world, requires both a student and a teacher to have some transferable skills in order to succeed in the educational process.

Our research is based on the competency–based approach, which has been accepted as an organizing principle in curriculum implementation in the USA and is recognized in many European countries, including Russia. The majority of higher education models in Russia rely on the concept of "key competencies", which include some common cultural and professional ones. The educational progress of students is assessed by the level of these competencies acquiring. However, personal qualities of a specialist, including responsibility and ability to teamwork, are of equal importance.

The paper introduces some methods and techniques to form some transferable skills i.e. responsibility and the ability to work in a team, in the course of a foreign language learning and translator’s training which are effectively applied at the Don State Technical University.

Keywords:

Responsibility, formation, competence, transferable skills, module, specialist.