COMPETENCE APPROACH IN PROFESSIONAL LINGUISTIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The paper considers organizational and pedagogical problems of foreign language teaching at the present stage of the development of the world. The methodological basis of professional linguistic education, meant to the personal enhancement of the students not majoring in Linguistics, is the competence approach, which makes the new educational model of a specialist with professional competence and carries out the many-level system of foreign language teaching. This system unites the content area of the Russian teaching system and the international and conventional mechanisms of linguistic competencecontrol at each level. The author underlines necessity of the technologic modification of the training course choosing training materials, which match content and target-oriented purposes, and educational resources, which provide effective learning in the cross-cultural context. The special attention is paid to the survey of the textbooks of foreign publishing houses, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the language social utilities and interactive Internet-services as pedagogic means, which enable to create the situations of real intercultural communication. An important aspect of the competence approach is considered to be the person-oriented paradigm of professional linguistic education, which develops the synergetic potentials of the linguistic personality expressed in the selforganization of productive intercultural communication.