Methodology of enhancement of linguistic competences of research and educational higher school personnel

The problem of linguistic competences of higher school personnel as one of the main problems, not allowing Russian higher education school to count on leading positions in the world university rankings, is discussed in this paper. Within the framework of the article the authors formulate a possible approach to the establishment of the strategy of linguistic competences development in a higher school. The authors are implementing this work on the basis of National research Tomsk polytechnic university (NRTPU). The methodology of the analysis of possibilities of linguistic competences development, search of the mechanism of measures implementation by their development, and identification of "gaps" or difficulties in implementation of these measures are presented in this article. For solution of the assigned objectives the parameterization of measure characteristics and their subsequent statistical processing are applied. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.