Foreign Language Teaching Strategies for Developing Students' Self-Management Skills

Over the past several decades researchers and experts in various industries have faced the growing need in the ability to perform both standard and unconventional professional tasks that depends greatly on one's creative thinking skills. Non-standard solutions involve general professional skills and what is known as soft skills, i.e. critical thinking, self-management, leadership, reflection, etc. The article suggests the analysis of self-management components as well as examines their formation prerequisites. The outlined skills are expected to increase the level of future experts' flexibility and adaptability to changing market conditions. Further, the paper proposes strategies for self-management skills development in the course of foreign language assuming students need to regularly conduct self-directed work with foreign language materials. Suggested teaching strategies enable learning activity planning to become an integral part of the educational process. The results of the study are considered meta-subject since they can be implemented in other courses of humanities.