Khoreshman V.S. 1
1 Faculty of Management in Economic and Social Systems
The article deals with the problem of the development of students’ learning competence. The author gives the definition of the term «learning competence» and defferenciate the two notions «competence» and «competency», which are often used as synonyms in Russian pedagogical scientific literature. Also, the author names and describes the most essential pedagogical conditions for forming and developing the non-linguistic students’ learning competency in the sphere of language study and describes the 3 stages of the process – the diagnostic one, the stage of adjustment and the self-regulated stage. The article describes such pedagogical conditions of students’ learning competency as positive motivation, independent activity efficiency, getting the intellectual satisfaction, tolerance to misunderstanding and others. Teachers are recommended in detail how to diagnose the level of a student’s learning competency, how to organize the process of education, how to select the educational content, how to organize gradual control over the process of learning competency development with linguistic education of engineering students as an example.