DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES WHEN LEARNING LANGUAGE SPECIALTIES IN A NON-LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY
The article examines such attributes of students’ intellectual abilities as memory, thinking, verbal flexibility and perception, creativity, emotional and social intelligence, which are a subject for research in cognitive science. The necessity of using strategies for mastering a foreign language by teachers of the discipline “Foreign language for professional purposes” is proved. A number of pedagogical conditions have been proposed, the fulfillment of which will contribute to the activation of the processes considered in the article. It is concluded that creating a special integrative-developing pedagogical environment in the university for the successful implementation of the tasks in the field of foreign language training is a must. Students should strive for a level of competence that is comparable to or close to the level of a native speaker (native like speaker).