Academic skills: nature, model, practice

The authors analyze the concept of academic skills in western pedagogy and its equivalents in Russian education. A hierarchical model of academic skills is proposed, which contains three types of skills: academic reading skills, academic writing skills and academic skills of oral presentations. The authors describe efficient methods of applying the model in practice in Russian context. For instance they examine the scheme of academic skills formation at the chair of foreign languages at the Department of World Economy and International Affairs (Higher school of economics).