PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES OF THE STUDENTS OF LINGUISTIC DEPARTMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COMPETENCE APPROACH TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Abstract

The paper considers the professional competences of the students of «Pedagogical education» & «Oriental and African studies» linguistic departments as the result of education in the framework of the competence approach in education at the University. The lack of certain types of competencies in the normative documents that should be formed in educational process had become the reason of our research – to select and to describe professional competences of the students for whom studying foreign languages is the basis of professional activity. As a result of our research we have identified teaching and research, pedagogical, intercultural and foreign language professional competences, each of which is formed in the educational process at the University, is the basis of professional language training and has its substantive content, the specifics of which are defined by the peculiarities of learning a foreign language as the main one. The use of certain items of professional competences in the learning process allows lecturers and graduates studying a foreign language at a professional level to clearly understand the learning outcomes at the University.