Teaching Tasks in Self-directed Reading as a Part of Foreign Language Course

Higher education teaching encompasses more than merely giving students knowledge and developing skills. It entails engaging students in their own self-development in order to be able to grow in both ways personal and professional. Under the conditions of time constraints in technical universities of Russia, the emphasis on student independent work motivates researchers to look for new teaching methods that would make students responsible for their learning results and collected skills. In this regard, the roles of higher education faculty are constantly modified in response to the educational paradigm change. The task of a teacher is to help a student to realize him/herself as a subject of educational process, to teach them how to search, systematize and integrate knowledge from different areas of global experience. Another core task is to provide students with learning strategies that could be widely used in their further independent study of a foreign language and professional fields. From this perspective, the authors’ aim is to investigate the teacher’s role and formulate the main tasks for teacher aimed at development of skills in foreign language reading and self-manage learning activity at technical universities.