The relevance of this article is due to the need to form the communicative competence of secondary school students as the main goal of teaching foreign languages in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard. The purpose of the article is to consider a speech play as one of the methods of teaching foreign languages. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the analysis of methodological literature and the experience of teachers. The article considers the structure of a speech game, its types, as well as the ways and conditions for effective achievement of its goals. The materials of the article can be useful for teachers of secondary schools and students of pedagogical universities and institutes when studying subjects related to the theory and methodology of teaching foreign languages

The aim of the work is to analyze the content of the notions “communicative culture”, “good speech” of a higher medical school teacher. The questions of raising the level of communicative training of a higher medical school teacher and of mastering his speech skills are discussed in the article.

The article is focused on the analysis of the components which comprise the meaning of the concept “education quality” regarded from the position of the speaker, place and time of speaking about it. It is assumed that the analysis of this concept should be based on distinct definition of the situational context and its components which constitute the meanings of the notion. This approach will make it possible for the educational community to come to an agreement in solving such complex issues, as what in fact education quality is, and how it may be improved.

The authors reveal that international students experience difficulties in the process of socio-psychological adaptation to study in the multicultural educational environment of a Russian university. It is shown that the socio-psychological adaptation of international students is a complex, dynamic and multilateral process of restructuring the motivational sphere, complex of existing skills and abilities to interact with subjects of the educational environment; its optimal characteristics are associated with medium-low indicators of the level of anxiety and a realistic level of self-esteem and aspirations, which allows the student to satisfy relevant social and cognitive needs and realize the goals and objectives of training. The study reveals personal qualities and socio-psychological characteristics having the most significant impact on the process of socio-psychological adaptation of international students to study at the Russian university: self-esteem, motivation, anxiety, type of thinking, level of communicative inclinations, psychological climate of the teaching staff, as well as a new unusual learning system.

The relevance of the studied problem is conditioned due to the formation of the concept of flexibility in the management of the labor market. The purpose of the article is to determine the essence of flexibility and rigidity of the labor market, their positive and negative characteristics. The leading approaches to the study of this problem are information-analytical and comparative-historical ones. The article highlights the principles and features of managing a flexible labor market, analyzes aspects of employment flexibility and their classification. Article materials may be useful for increasing the efficiency of the modern mechanism of the labor market functioning.

The article analyzes the understanding of the ideas of self-knowledge and love in the works of modern Western, Russian and Ukrainian scholars. The author makes an attempt to outline the relationship of the ontological aspects of self-knowledge and its philosophical foundations as a whole with the aspects of love phenomenon in the works of modern authors. The article is aimed at analyzing the problems of self-knowledge and love in modern social and philosophical studies, as well as identifying the relationship between them. The materials in this article may be useful for finding new possibilities for interpreting the concepts of self-knowledge and love. The study of the conceptual field of the terms love and self-knowledge allows us to argue that their relationship determines a certain condition, life-essential self-determination, attitude to the world and to ourselves.