Emotional Intelligence of Students as an Object of Study of Linguistic Disciplines: An Analytical Review

Abstract

The aim of the research is to evaluate the phenomenon of emotional intelligence from the standpoint of a number of the disciplines of the humanities: pedagogy, psychology, linguistics, linguodidactics. The article analyses domestic and foreign studies that reveal the problems of developing the emotional intelligence of students from higher educational institutions by means of linguistic disciplines; psychological, linguistic and linguodidactic aspects of emotional intelligence consideration in terms of foreign language training at the university are presented. As a result of the analytical review, it is proved that the disciplines “Foreign Language” and “Russian as a Foreign Language” have a diverse potential in terms of the possibilities for developing the emotional intelligence of students by means of foreign language training at the university.