THE CONCEPT OF “SOFT SKILLS” IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Abstract
As a result of the new economic order characterized by the information revolution, the study of the skills and competencies that professionals need to possess has become one of the most pressing issues. Skills that are distinct from a person's profession and have cross-sectoral applicability are called generic competencies/skills, social competencies/skills, non-academic skills, non-cognitive skills, core competencies/skills, life skills, key competencies/skills, transversal competencies/skills, transferable skills, XXI century skills, people skills, employability skills, soft skills, and in Russian-language scientific sources, soft skills (мягкие навыки), flexible skills (гибкие навыки), high professional skills (надпрофессиональные навыки), key competencies (ключевые компенсии), universal skills (универсальные навыки) have been widely studied as an object of foreign scientific research since the 90s of the 20th century.
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