Competence approach in realization of profession-oriented project method in teaching foreign languages

The paper deals with the questions of linguistic education for the students of non-linguistic specialties. The analysis of modern state of teaching foreign languages has been made and the main demands to the level of the corresponding competences possession for foreign language professional communication fulfillment have been determined. It is shown that the competence approach has a series of peculiarities: a complex of skills and knowledge and the ability to use them in certain conditions of real life is considered as a competence; a competence is always personally affected by the characteristics of a person and it is revealed as a personally recognized feature involved in subjective experience; the competence approach demands a new pedagogical culture and methodological efforts formation, new technologies and teaching principles research which lead to the creation of the competences formulated in the Standards of higher education. The model of teaching a foreign language to non-linguistic students has been designed by the authors taking into consideration the paradigm of foreign language professional education. The model includes the following aspects: the aim and tasks, the content of education and technologies used while realizing the competence approach in working out new educational programs. The types of competences, formation of which ensures the development of ability and readiness to solve the problems of professional foreign language communication, have been found. In this case we speak about the formation of such competences as foreign language communicative competence (linguistic, social linguistic, discursive, sociocultural, social, strategic), professional competences, general competences. While choosing technologies in the process of these competences formation it is necessary to approach education to the real professional activities or their imitation. This approach can be reached while using the forms of teaching process organization that create optimal conditions for partnership of communication members, expression of personal opinion on the problems discussed, that can be considered as essential features for the reality of professional activities. The aim of education is determined as the formation of communicative professional competence through the use of project method having professional direction at the lessons of a foreign language. The authors' model promotes the most effective formation of foreign language communicative competence of natural science students on the basis of professionally oriented project method according to the themes, which provide the unity of professional training and teaching foreign language professional discourse.

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