A personalized approach to the organization of the in-depth language training (case study of elite education programme at South Ural State University)

Higher education oriented to an average student does not satisfy the needs of education elite - graduates of lyceums and gymnasiums. Elite training zones organized at universities can solve this problem enabling the most talented and motivated students to develop their potential. The purpose of the article is to summarize the experience gained in the implementation of in-depth language training in the area of elite education at South Ural State University within the framework of the 5-100 Initiative. The article presents the theoretical and methodological approaches to the design of a language training model. The personalized approach is chosen as a practice-oriented tactics. Personalized approach to students training presupposes: considering learners’ features, individual differences, interests and needs; focus on personal knowledge; learners’ activity and autonomy in educational process; building educational process as co-existing educational community; directing the mode of pedagogical interaction towards teacher-student synergy in solving set tasks on participative principles. The authors of the article present a model of in-depth elite language training, its structural components, as well as the pedagogical conditions for its implementation.