Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2019 number 3

Nowadays processes of internationalization cover all spheres of human activity. The intensification of these processes in the modern educational space requires developing new content and educational methods that will be aimed at preparing graduates both for professional and life-sustaining activities at this historical stage of development. The aim of this article was determined by the necessity to analyze the theoretical and practical aspects of vocational training of university graduates in the context of internationalization. The authors used the system method as the main one. To understand and clarify the essence and prerequisites of the internationalization of the educational process at the university at the present stage, the authors turned to general logical research methods and techniques. To identify and justify the general and distinctive features and properties of the content and organization of the educational process, based on the principles of internationalization, the structural and functional analysis principles were used. The analysis of theoretical aspects of internationalization in higher education suggests that this process is characterized by the inclusion of an international component in existing curricula and programs, international academic mobility, and the creation of strategic educational alliances. The article notes that there are several approaches to understanding and defining the processes of internationalization in higher education. It is revealed that at the moment the views of foreign and Russian scientists on the processes of internationalization in higher education differ. The authors find it logical that the main focus of work at the present stage should be on evaluating the content and organization of the educational process in Russian universities, taking into account various aspects of internationalization and also in terms of their importance for improving the quality of professional training of a university graduate. The authors conclude that the preparation of a modern, mobile specialist, demanded and competitive, is impossible without effective teaching of a foreign language.The current trend in teaching foreign languages is associated with the increased integration of a language and particular subject area. A positive point is the strengthening of interdepartmental cooperation, which, ultimately, “works” for the CLIL concept implementation (subject-language integration) in the vocational training of university graduates.