Astra Salvensis (Jul 2019)

LINGUO-SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE AS A FACTOR OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE FOREIGN PHILOLOGY TEACHER

  • Dmytro A. Begeka

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The relevance of the research: the relevance of this research is grounded by the need for the improvement of the professional training of the future foreign philology teacher for work at the Pedagogical University. The aim of the research: the aim is an analysis of the main elements of the linguo-social and cultural competence (LSCC) in the context of the professional training of the future Master as a future English philology teacher at the Pedagogical university for the formation of the LSCC among the Foreign philology students and improvement of the training quality. Research methods: a linguo-social and cultural method, system and structural analysis; systemization and generalization; empiric method (practical experience studying, observation, questioning, grading and self-rating etc.); pedagogical experiment; mathematical methods etc. Results: there was developed a form of the questionnaire concerning the definition of the future Master preparation level for the formation of linguo-social and cultural competence among the students; the subject knowledge was defined as well as the knowledge of standards in the context of the future Master’s acquisition of practical skills concerning the linguo-social and cultural competence among the students. At the nascent stage of the experiment in comparison with the acknowledge stage the future Masters of the experimental groups demonstrated a much higher interest for another culture, showed the ability to teach the students on the ground of the cultures dialogue, they faced a strengthened understanding of the non-verbal speech, ability to use different communicative roles, to work out the speech patterns, idioms, phraseological units etc. In general there was achieved the increased level of the future Masters qualification of the experimental groups in comparison with those of the control group. Significance of the research: Originality of the research lies in application within the pedagogical experiment of package of measures oriented to preparation of the future English philology teacher for work at the Pedagogical university as well as in development of requirements as obligatory conditions concerning the specialist training. There was formed a notion of the linguo-social and cultural competence of the future Foreign philology Master of the Pedagogical university; content, cognitive tasks, means and ways of the professional training of the future specialist under research were found out. Reading of the special purpose educational course and processing of the questionnaire brought a positive result.

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