PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHERS AS THE PRECONDITION OF THEIR SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Authors: Ілона Бойчевська
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the process of the future foreign language teachers’ professional competence development. The aim of the article was to review professional competence development as the precondition of the successful professional activity of the future foreign language teachers. Several methods have been used during the article preparation such as: system analysis of documents and scientific researches of the problem investigated, with the help of which the possible aspects of the problem’s examination have been revealed; terminological analysis, which was useful in the process of identification of different approaches to the term “professional competence”. The explanation of the term “professional competence” has been introduced from the point of view of the European scientists. It was stated in the article that the professional competence is the combination of professional knowledge, skills, experience and specialist’s personal qualities, which characterize his professional level and are necessary for the fulfillment of the effective professional activity. Moreover, the professional competence of the foreign language teacher was defined as an integral ability of the personality to solve professional problems. It has been emphasized that the basis for the development of future foreign languages teachers’ professional competence is formed with the sufficient level of foreign language teachers’ readiness for social and cultural competence formation of pupils of secondary schools. The investigation of teacher’s professional competence in the context of new language policy from the point of view of social, cultural and competence approach allows determining the peculiarities of its formation. It also gives some reasons to state that the acquisition of professional competence by the future foreign language teacher becomes possible according to the development of high level of social and cultural competence. Thus, professional competence is the factor of specialist’s quality of training. The main components of future specialists’ professional competence are fundamental knowledge, knowledge of the methodology of scientific search, information and computer competence, sociological competence, legal competence, professional growth, constant advance of professional knowledge.

Keywords

EN

professional competence; foreign languages teachers; professional activity; levels of professional competence; professional knowledge; professional skills

• Publisher: Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko
• Journal: Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4(58)
• Pages: 199-206

Dates

published

2016-04-25

Contributors

author

Ілона Бойчевська