ORGANIZATION OF CONTROL OF THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS OF NON-LANGUAGE UNIVERSITIES
The article analyzes the problem of assessing the level of proficiency in a foreign language (by the example of English) of students of non-language specialties. The author of the article indicates the relevance of this problem, defines the principle of authenticity for the control and assessment of the formation of the competence of intercultural communication. Later in the article, the author describes the main problems of development of this competence and describes ways to solve it, by introducing his own methodology for developing training tasks based on authentic materials for assessing the quality of training non-linguistic students for professional activity in a multicultural environment. According to the author's methodology, the process of learning a foreign language is more effective, especially if it is implemented taking into account the principle of reflexivity of quasi-professional activity. The article describes the process and results of the author’s implementation based on the Ural State University of Economics of the proposed methodology for organizing the control of foreign language proficiency by developing educational tasks based on authentic materials among first and second year students who do not have a foreign language (English) profiling.