MODERN DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS TO FORM FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE IN ECONOMICS STUDENTS

Abstract

The author characterizes effective diagnostic tools to develop foreign language competence among students mastering economics. Some features of Russian and the world’s modern economic and cultural life are investigated. On this basis, the work shows the importance to form such competence among students of non-linguistic universities and to conduct its diagnostics. The definition of the corresponding term in relation to the teaching a foreign language to future economists’ process is the most adequate to modern ideas about pedagogical diagnostics. The following is about its key functions. The main problems that need to be solved during the preparation of diagnostic tasks in a foreign language are demonstrated. Examples of tasks aimed at diagnosing the foreign language competence formation among economics students are given.