HIGHER EDUCATION

This article deals with the peculiarities of the teacher’s interaction with the Russian and Chinese student audiences in the process of teaching in the higher education system of the Russian Federation. Russian and Chinese students’ audience features were analyzed in terms of using these features in the professional activity of a teacher teaching Russian and Chinese students both individually and as part of mixed groups.

The article is devoted to the problems of modernization of higher professional education, development of models and forms of conducting final state certification in the direction of "Philology" in bachelor's and master's programs. The basis of certification is the competence approach, which assumes orientation to various spheres of professional activity of graduates-philologists.