This paper aims to develop designing technology of English language teaching content for students at higher education institution in the context of education internationalization. It highlighted the analytical, pre-designing, designing and correction-implementation stages as well as their successive phases to achieve a specific goal, i.e. English language teaching content designing in terms of international component. The materials of this paper are of practical value for teachers of foreign languages in the selecting and structuring the language teaching content in the context of education internationalization.

The article is aimed at revealing pedagogical potential of an elective career guidance course to form pupils and students' professional self-determination in the integrated system "school-vocational college". The basic approach to research this problem is an integrative one that causes efficiency of pupils and students' career guidance work in dual integrated system. The content of career guidance course "Professional Career Planning" developed and presented in this article is aimed at pupils' professional self-determination formation, consciousness and steady interest in choosing future profession. As for vocational college students, the course is directed towards the students' choice of their own individual educational and career way, revealing their adaptation abilities to future professional activity. Materials of the article are of value for school and vocational college teachers while organizing and planning career guidance work at the educational institutions.

This article is aimed to identify characteristics of the formation of students foreign language skills in the process of self-learning activity. It is proved that foreign language competences are formed as a complex of integrated steady students education as subjects of self-learning activity including: language, speech, compensatory, educational and informative, socio-cultural, communicative and projecting competences. The article submissions are of practical value to foreign language teachers in the organization and planning of students educational and self-learning activity aimed to establish and improve their foreign language competence.

Nowadays many foreign language teachers are not enough aware about the significance of the research component within their profile discipline, arguing that students even in their native language do not have enough use of fundamentals in their scientific professional activities. Therefore, this article is aimed to study the role of foreign language teacher when mastering students' research skills in the process of learning English as a foreign language. The study results have confirmed that process of mastering students' research skills when learning foreign language is directly connected with their teacher's own research skill level. These article materials have practical value both for foreign language teachers and for students enrolled for foreign languages programs of education sciences faculties at high schools.

The purpose of this article is aimed at studying the problem of increasing the formation of students' diagnostic skills in the course of training at a university. The presented article demonstrates a technique for diagnosing the level of professional and cultural competences formation on the basis of students' effectiveness in quasi professional environment. The basis of the presented work is formed by the ideas of the competence approach, their qualitative tools, expert assessment of the educational activities of university students. The article describes a method of assessing competences, criteriaё and levels of formation and methods of their estimation, allowing a diagnostics of educational activities. This article is intended for teachers, researchers, educational institutions heads who deal with the diagnostics of educational activities.