Abstract
The author has studied peculiarities of students' representations with different strategies of meaning transfer on communication and professional skills of teachers influencing students' meaning-making. The research involved 156 students of the age of 18-21 at their BSc 1st -3rd years of different study areas. The results reveal that there are certain peculiarities in students' ideas on the expression of verbal and non-verbal characteristics of a teacher in the educational process with different strategies of semantic transfer. Students believe that expressive and verbal features of the teacher influence their learning outcomes and appropriation of professional meanings.