Nº 3 (856) (2025)

The article investigates the problem of foreign language teaching in heterogeneous classes that often acquire features of multiculturalism and multiethnicity. Observation of teaching practice as well as analysis of scientific pedagogical and methodological literature showed that the implementation of a personality-oriented approach in such classes requires special technological solutions and conscious professional training of teachers.

The article touches upon the problem of compiling foreign language teaching and learning materials using modern software created with artificial intelligence technologies. The main methods are experiment and analysis. The material is the linguistic corpus of the newspaper articles from “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” with a volume of more than 1 million tokens. The authors describe and test seven types of search queries, the result of which are authentic contexts for compiling language learning and teaching materials.

The article looks at the dynamics of person-centered paradigm in modern linguistic education; emphasizes orientation on the personality developing, agency-centered nature of foreign language teaching; outlines the conditions of implementing this approach and creating educational situation aimed at developing agency features of the learner; considers the possibility to ensure agency-oriented character of the content of teaching, educational practices and assessment of educational results in foreign language learning.

The article examines the problem of the formation and development of the Russian cultural identity in foreign language classes. Co-learning a foreign language and culture contributes to the development of a multicultural language identity, expanding the boundaries of one’s own worldview, which improves one’s understanding of the mentality of a foreign-speaking interlocutor from the perspective of one’s own cultural affiliation, and helps one find a way out of potential situations of cultural conflict. The authors define the concept of the Russian cultural identity in the context of intercultural interaction and identify its components: conceptual, sensual and etiquette.

Technologically implemented multilevel training of specialists remains a pressing issue, its solution requires teaching students to pose and quickly and efficiently solve professional problems. Interactive organization of a foreign language problem lecture will ensure complete readiness of future specialists for foreign language professional activity due to varying models used for monitoring their multilevel mental actions in small groups in class and out of class.

The purpose of the article is to explore teacher-training and teacher development issues related to the evaluation of future foreign language teachers’ and in-service foreign language teachers’ professional competence. The author suggests using a variety of techniques to make teacher evaluation as authentic as possible. The author describes samples of testing activities and tasks which could be used in the teacher-training course with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of foreign language teacher development.

The article discusses the problem of image exteriorization in working with metaphorical associative cards; discusses the issues of combining metaphor, words and action in the image; verbal and non-verbal, conscious and unconscious in working with metaphorical cards; reveals the mechanisms of working with them; substantiates the transformation of the image in the process of working with metaphorical associative cards and the key role of the teacher; provides examples of the metaphorical cards use when working with students including role positions, motivation and the value-semantic sphere.

The article presents the findings of the study which examined the development of intercultural competence of the students of linguistics based on the use of digital resources. The findings of the study indicate a correlation between the level of development of certain parameters of intercultural sensitivity and the use of certain digital tools. The analysis concludes that it is necessary to take into account the potential of digital resources for the development of intercultural sensitivity in foreign language teaching.

The article examines certain aspects of the formation of modern Russian legislation on licensing and self-regulation (in terms of carrying out certain types of activities based on a license, membership in a self-regulating organization, and a certificate of admission to a certain type of work), the norms of which are represented in a number of branches of law (although the author’s attention is mainly focused on the provisions of civil legislation). Some contradictions and gaps in the analyzed legislation are noted, and proposals for its improvement are presented.

The competition of legality and effectiveness in political activity, the essence of legal policy is investigated. At this level of development of social culture, efficiency dominates legality, which makes it problematic to form a stable legal political phenomenon. One of the stages of its formation is the rule of law. The principles of legal statehood are gradually being established in the world, which has a non-linear but positive effect on the decriminalization of society.

The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between migration processes and extremist criminality. The paper analyzes the state of migrant crime, as well as factors contributing to the radicalization of individual groups. Special attention is paid to the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting the integration of migrants into the host society, and the problems that arise. Migration is considered as one of the key determinants of extremist crime.