Progression of students’ creative activity in studying foreign languages in a non-linguistic university

Abstract

Nowadays, the problem of developing the creative activity of the younger generation is of particular attention. Modern economic, technological and socio-cultural realities, technical modernization of industries, scientific achievements determine the social need for initiative, creative people, often with a substandard view of the problem, flexible thinking, the desire to transform reality and expanding the boundaries of experience, as well as going beyond it. Mainly, it is being correlated with the state vision of the education results in a non-linguistic university and modern global trends in the modernization of education. The paper provides a theoretical analysis and an assessment of the results of a pedagogical experiment on the approbation of a model for the development of students’ creative activity in the framework of foreign language education. The research describes the author’s model for the progression of students’ creative activity and applies diagnostics of its effectiveness. The authors used almost the same diagnostic tools in order to ensure objectivity and the possibility of comparing the initial and final stages results of the trial.