Modelling testing competence formation in pre-service foreign language and culture teachers

Abstract

Testing competence of a future teacher of foreign languages and cultures is the ability to select, independently create and effectively use testing technologies to implement foreign-language communicative competence formation monitoring along with its individual constituents. An important prerequisite for its formation is a scientifically substantiated model, which is implemented within the framework of the discipline «Modern approaches to testing in teaching foreign languages at schools». In the given article, the model of testing competence formation in future teachers of foreign languages and cultures is presented as a systematic schematic representation of the constituents that ensure the efficiency of its formation and are implemented as organic unity. These constituents include among others purpose; approaches and principles of testing competence formation; educational process organization forms; teaching methods and technologies; testing competence formation means and monitoring methods as well as outcomes. The methodological basis of the model of testing competence formation in future teachers of foreign languages and cultures includes the approaches (competence-based, differenciated approach, project, and reflexive approaches), principles of their implementation; methods and technologies (problematic, game, computer based methods, portfolio method, project technology), textbooks (“A textbook of preservice language and culture teachers testing competency”), as well as monitoring methods (survey, presentation of creative professional and methodological tasks, electronic testing, presentation of individual project tasks, interviewing, written assignments). Crucial factors for the effeciency of the proposed model implementation are quasi-professional activities carried out by the future teachers of foreign languages and cultures on designing, compiling and implementing of tests to monitor students’ foreign language communicative competence formation.

Keywords

• модель
• тестова компетентність
• майбутній вчитель іноземних мов і культур.