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«Professional Qualities of a Manager» at a conference or a meeting of the Scientific
Society.
The continuation of the discussion of international problems and innovations,
etc. started at the Scientific Society meetings is organizing events where the students
present the videos shot by themselves, deliver reports in foreign languages. The stu-
dents facilitated by teachers have organized creative parties and theme events: «In-
terviewing», «Customs and traditions of European countries», «Shakespeare», «Rus-
sian and American films»; meetings with students and teachers from Canada, Ireland,
The USA, The Netherlands. The role play «International Press Conference» allowed
to reveal the desires and needs of the students who are not strangers to European
youth problems in education, employment, moral choice and to form their own atti-
tudes towards modern economic and political processes.
The students' research work at the Foreign Language Department has been car-
ried out for more than ten years. The students are interested in acute psycho-
pedagogical problems of training specialists: the quality of students and teachers in-
terrelationships, including the feedback from the students. Foreign investigations on
these problems are being studied by the students, in particular, the opinion of Ameri-
can students about the learning process using the Total Quality Management System
[2].
The extracurricular activities in foreign languages influence the academic pro-
cess on the whole and move it from consultative and teaching level into the format of
international up-bringing. The educational potential of extracurricular activities en-
hances the graduates’ readiness to help establish cross-cultural and scientific rela-
tions. In this context, it is hard to overestimate the existence in the higher educational
institutions of non-formal groups of different levels, joining students keen on innova-
tions and communication: scientific societies and optional courses, project groups of
students investigating the same scientific problem, etc.
The extracurricular activities in foreign languages are of particular importance
for students because any foreign language is a touch point of their profession and
special subjects, it draw them nearer to practical and cognitive-assessing parameters,
by which the modern graduate's competitiveness is estimated.
The variability of the higher educational institution environment forms a cer-
tain way of the students' variative thinking, which contributes to their willingness to
participate in various professional and social situations. Further study may be devoted
to the investigation of professional competences of the future graduates as their abili-
ties to carry various knowledge and skills over to the socio-economic reality.