CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF STUDENT<sup>'</sup>S CREATIVE THINKING AT UNIVERSITIES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF NEW EDUCATIONAL STANDARD IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
The relevance of the study is due to fundamentally new tasks of higher educational institutions within the framework of Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education (FSES HE 3++), aimed at the formation and development of students' creative thinking, creative activity and independence. The modern stage of the development of the Russian higher educational system is characterized by the urgent need to mobilize university students to master creative ways of solving life problems, self-education, self-development. Based on this, the authors conduct a number of studies that make it possible to determine the conceptual basis for the formation and development of students' creative thinking at technical universities within the framework of the modernization of FSES HE 3++in practical classes of a foreign language. As a result of the experiment, on the basis of a scientific and methodological study of literary sources, as well as using the results of experimental work, a functional and meaningful model of students' creative thinking at technical universities was developed. The study was conducted for 3 years from 2019 to 2021 on the basis of the Department of General Education Disciplines of the Orenburg Institute of Railways (Orenburg, Russia). The results of experimental work are presented, which made it possible to assess the effectiveness of the created and implemented functional-content model, its implementation in the professional training of the future engineer at a transport university.