The article deals with the necessity of having the development programme in the educational organization from the point of view of modern reality and relevancy for the management team and the programme role in managing. The focus is given to the document structure and content from the point of view of its convenience, understanding and having regard to modern key factors - international, state, regional and municipal development trends. The article points out the mistakes committing when designing and realizing the development programme using project management, the management team role to provide the teaching staff readiness to put the development programme into operation.

Distance learning is characterised with autonomy that is why students’ ability to self-regulate their learning becomes vital. Metacognitive self-regulation is a primary prerequisite for students’ academic success. It identifies a modern highly qualified specialist able to adjust his knowledge to any unconventional problem. This study is aimed at analysing the impact of distance learning on student’s metacognitive self-regulation in the process of studying a foreign language at a university. The research sample consisted of four first-year students’ academic groups (N 86) from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. To analyse the impact of distance learning on student’s metacognitive self-regulation we used a scale “Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies: Metacognitive Self-Regulation” of the MSLQ Questionnaire. The Paired sample T-test revealed no statistically significant difference between the values Mean 1 (after a semester of on-campus teaching) and Mean 2 (after a semester of online teaching). However, the results demonstrate that the participants of the study became more aware of the strategies they use, improved some self-study skills and the ability to plan and organize the learning process. We can conclude that distance learning had a positive effect on the way students planned and evaluated their educational activities.

The article analyzes the positive and negative aspects of the use of modular training in Russian universities. The concept of a modular system is revealed. The meaning and essence of individualization of training is characterized. The author examines the main and auxiliary educational elements and declares the need to apply the principle of feedback in the educational process. Motivation is studied as the main professional skill of the teacher.

The article deals with analysing a part of the concept of smell verbalised by adjectives and participles in the English language image of the world by means of linguo-cognitive methods. For this reason the author looks at direct and methaphorical meanings of 11 English adjectives and participles containing the seme «neutral smell». We believe that linguo-сognitive analysis of phraseological meanings of lexemes enables us to draw certain conclusions about some culturally determined national features of the phenomenon of smell perception in the English language image of the world.

This article examines the features of the Argentinean version of the Spanish language. Attention is paid to its physical, grammatical syntactic characteristics and vocabulary, which reveals the originality of the variant in comparison with the normative language of Spain.

This article is devoted to the peculiarities of the author’s metaphor translation on the base of V.V. Nabokov’s “Mashenka”. Metaphor is a part of various language styles and plays a significant role in the thinking of an individual and the nation. Within the article the methods of transferring the author’s metaphor while translating from Russian into English are considered, as well as the translation transformations that the translator uses. Considerable attention is paid to specific examples and identification of their translation specifics.

This article presents the issue of preserving the textual implication during the process of the English-Russian fiction translation. Basing on the W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Creative Impulse”, the authors analyze the textual implication, which is believed to be mandatory before the actual translation of any fiction. The textual implication is composed of separate indications scattered in different places in the text. The authors’ goal is to provide a rough pretranslation analysis of the story. W. Somerset Maugham’s poetics and style as presented in “The Creative Impulse” is the object of such analysis in this article.

The article deals with cases when a translator from modern European languages may encounter texts containing Latin lexemes or idioms. Most often it will be special works from the field of natural sciences, as well as publications on the history and culture of the ancient world; another category of texts containing Latin inclusions are materials of the XVIII century. In some cases, the transfer of Latin inclusions may not require the translator the knowledge of Latin. However, if there is a need for grammatical concordance of a Latin words with the Russian ones, understanding the grammatical and/or semantic meaning of the Latin lexeme becomes a necessary requirement for achieving translation equivalence. One of the cases that require knowledge of practical phonetics and grammar of the Latin language is the transfer of proper names.

This article considers the most typical way of word formation in English-language aviation terminology - abbreviation. It gives a classification of abbreviations found in aviation texts. The article reviews simple and complex aviation English abbreviations using examples of alphabetic and syllabic abbreviations, truncated words, and acronyms. The lexical material is selected from international aviation documents and dictionaries. The article also touches upon the issues of aviation abbreviations homonymy and concludes about its undesirable appearance in the aviation text.

The person’s behavior and motivation can be explained only by knowing his individuality, which is formed on the basis of the relationship between the characteristics of a human-being as a person and as a subject of activity, which are determined by the natural properties of a person as an individual. There are three main types of activity - play, study, work. The educational and professional activities are the leading activities of the university students, in the process of which the formation of professionally important qualities occurs. They are necessary for successful professionalization, therefore there is the relevance of studying the psychological aspects of this process.