Learning for Competence through Distance Education

Abstract

The article focuses on the content components necessary for the formation of a special learning competence for distance-learning students. The authors propose their own interpretation of the constituents of the learning competence with due regard for the specificity of studying foreign languages by means of telecommunication technologies. Such components are to be considered in the context of the learner-centered paradigm. The content of the technology created includes knowledge of the essence and specificity of learning activities in foreign language acquisition. The article demonstrates a big variety of terms in the methodical literature. The authors describe learning skills and say that they are such ways of learning activities that do not directly constitute a mechanism for the formation of a communication competence, but rationalize this process. The article helps to understand that studying foreign languages with the help of telecommunications presents a number of difficulties and it is proved that learning competence remove the difficulties of distance learning. The article gives the important methodological provisions defining a role and the place of learning competence of a context of distance language learning.