TRADITIONAL IMPERATIVE AND INNOVATIVE PARADIGM IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
The process of full deployment of the personal potential is highly valued at the labor market. The basis of the efficiency and effectiveness of the educational process should be the development of intellectual abilities of students. Higher order of thinking involves the ability of students to use knowledge in new situations as well as generate and build something new on the basis of the knowledge gained. Moreover, the higher order of thinking promotes person`s self-actualization and, as a result, achievement of the highest level of personal growth. Today the main task of a higher school professor in the training of specialists in accordance with the standards of the XXI century is to develop and improve the students' skills of this kind. Bloom's taxonomy establishing a direct link between the goals of education and the hierarchy of cognitive processes is a practical and convenient tool for setting goals and assessing learning outcomes. The work on special texts in the process of learning a foreign language provides a wide range of opportunities for improving higher order thinking skills. The article describes some of the approaches, strategies and examples for the enhancement of higher order thinking in the process of teaching foreign languages to students of non-linguistic university.