Development of Metacompetencies in University Students in the Process of Scientific Research in a Foreign Language

Abstract

The work is an attempt to generalize the theory and practice of developing metacompetencies in university students, which are interpreted by the authors of this study as supra-subject bases determining the effectiveness of further self-realization of a university graduate in a certain professional field of activity. The results of a pedagogical experiment conducted at the Siberian State University of Railway Engineering are presented. The experiment is aimed at studying the influence of research work in a foreign language on the formation of metacompetencies in students. A model for the organization of students' research work, including the levels of perception, analysis, and synthesis of scientific information, is proposed. The content of each level in the organization of students' research work is described and analyzed. The authors pay special attention to the formation of academic writing skills necessary to increase the publication activity of various groups of researchers taking into account international rules and norms, as well as the skills of public scientific presentation in a foreign language, allowing to present the results of the study at the international level.