PROFESSIONAL AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This article discusses the specificity of the competence approach in the field of higher professional education. The effectiveness of professional project activities, which is one of the effective methods for the development of students' professional pedagogical activity, ensures the unity of professional training and intercultural professional communication, which most effectively contributes to the formation of professional communicative competence of students of a pedagogical university. The aim of this research is to analyze professional and project activities of students in the implementation of a competence-based approach in teaching a foreign language. During experimental work we use the project method in the process of learning a foreign language and presented data how experimental groups enhanced their skills. The practical application of professional project activities proves the effectiveness of interactive learning, its influence on the formation and improvement of professional competencies among students. It is possible to conclude that a competence based approach for foreign language professional education for students of a pedagogical university is a prerequisite for developing an effective foreign language teaching program, since its methodological basis provides the teacher with an opportunity to fill the educational process with value related and personal is oriented content, to build a learning process conducive to the development of socially significant competencies that realize communicative orientation of training.