Cognitive Skills of Future Philologists : Content, Structure and Promising Directions of the Development

The author of the article specifies the content of the cognitive skills of future philologists as one of the means of active obtaining and using knowledge in the context of today's information space. A structural-functional model of the phenomenon is developed. In particular, in its structure, three components – the motivational and volitional, the operational and procedural and the content and reflective ones – are singled out, and their microstructure is developed. Promising directions of the development of cognitive skills of future philologists are identified, and they are based on ideas concerning psychological mechanisms of the functioning of motivation, attention, memory, thinking and the decision-making theory, which determine the cognitive activity of the individual