Ways to Intensify the Personal Development Potential of a Foreign Language as a Discipline for Non-Linguist Students of Russian Universities Today

Teaching techniques used in foreign language courses for non-linguist students at modern Russian universities are scrutinized through the prism of their personal development potential for the students. The notion of students’ speech-based personal development is considered to be the basic pedagogical tool. The effectiveness of applying the tool depends on the balance and sufficiency of the organizational, psychological and teaching methods-based subsystems within the teaching process system as a whole.