A number of national high technical schools have joined an international scientific and educational community and in addition started to extend collaboration with a majority of higher educational institutions, organizations and companies abroad. On the way to globalisation and integration many of the national universities have encountered a problem of an inefficient level of foreign language competence mastering by the university graduates. In this connection, high technical schools required new standards of training would-be specialists capable of functioning in the international scientific and academic environment and possessing at least one foreign language. The achievement of the above mentioned goals can be possible due to implementation of a modular educational technology in the university academic process. This technology makes it possible for any student to follow an individual academic curriculum, which includes a target-oriented program, information bank and teaching guide. Thus, modular training is considered to be a particular didactic system, which is realized through a total of different forms of teacher-student partnership organized in a number of academic units (modules) with the purpose to raise the efficiency of teaching material coverage by students and in addition to improve the quality of foreign languages training. The modular foreign languages training program was designed and launched in the academic process of Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2005. The program is intended for would-be technical experts studying a foreign language on a profound basis. One of the main conditions of modular training program successful implementation in an academic process is undoubtedly a modular foreign languages syllabus. To design a modular foreign languages syllabus is a time-consuming activity bearing severe requirements to educational designers' pedagogical and methodological competences. It was designed in accordance with the methodological principles of modular training such as modularity, structural division of teaching content into separate modular units, dynamism, activity method, flexibility, method of conscious perspective, versatility of methodical counselling and parity.

В статье приводятся основные методические положения применения модульного обучения иностранному языку студентов технического вуза.