Role and place of readership competence in professional competence of future foreign language teachers

Abstract

The article deals with the aspect of competency-based education, determines the main stages of its development. The stages of development of the competence approach are considered, the essence of the concepts of "competence", "professional competence", "communicative competence", "foreign language communicative competence", "language competence" and "readership competence" of future foreign language teachers are determined. The objective factors of the relevance on forming the readership competence of future foreign language teachers at the pedagogical level are highlighted. The article distinguishes the necessity to prepare future foreign language teachers for the conscious use of hypertext and multimedia, to the ability to independently apply software for processing text, tabular, graphical information, to work in computer networks in accordance with educational and professional tasks specific for the university. It was proved that the readership competence is of paramount importance, since effective solving of professional-pedagogical tasks is impossible without knowledge, skills and abilities of foreign language reading, operation of the information received from the text. The key role in the contemporary world is played by the degree of information accessibility, the results of extraction, analysis, processing and assignment of data, significantly increase the requirements for comprehension and reflection of texts, to the processing of their content to achieve personal and professional goals, which is largely determined by the level of readership skills development, the formation of readership competence. Objective factors of the relevance of the work on developing the readership competence of future foreign language teachers at the socio-pedagogical level are directly related to the effects of informatization. The spread of new forms of information representation in writing (databases, the Internet, e-books, etc.), the emergence of automated libraries with electronic catalogs caused the objective need for mastering this non-traditional information field in the educational process of the university from the standpoint of pedagogical approach. Therefore, it is necessary to study in detail the content and structure of readership competence of future foreign language teachers.