Development of professional competence of future foreign language teachers in inclusive education through profession-based volunteering

Abstract

The existing modern trends, associated with the need for a wider inclusion of children with disabilities in society, actualize the problem of the formation of inclusive competence of teachers, and the teachers of foreign languages are not an exception. We should start the process of development of this professional competence at university level. The article aims to state the importance of the acquiring inclusive professional competence in teaching children with special educational needs by university students, studying at the department of foreign languages, through profession-based volunteering. federal state educational standard of higher education provides the universities with the list of necessary competences that should be developed in educational process. These competences can be divided into groups: general, basic, special and specific competences. The object of the research is the process of inclusive competence development of future foreign language students of Murmansk arctic state university through profession-based volunteering. The article analyzes the results of the survey conducted in Murmansk arctic state university.