РІВНЕВИЙ ПІДХІД ДО СУЧАСНОЇ ПРОФЕСІЙНО ОРІЄНТОВАНОЇ МОВНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНЬОГО ВЧИТЕЛЯ ІНОЗЕМНОЇ МОВИ

Abstract

Nowadays levels of mastering foreign languages have the significant importance for standartisation and unified database of achieved levels in mastering any foreign language. The descriptors of each level allow every learner to define and evaluate his or her level of the developed foreign communicative competence. The purpose of the article is to overview different approaches to defining levels of development of foreign communicative competence and professionally oriented competence of teachers of foreign languages. To achieve the stated aims such tasks were carried out: defining levels of teachers’ professionally oriented competence and its correlation with levels of foreign languages mastering and defining the levels of foreign professionally oriented speaking, stating the correlation between levels of mastering a foreign language and stages of teaching foreign languages to teacher trainees at university. With the help of analyzing European documents and researches in psychology and pedagogy there were identified ways of defining and describing levels of communicative competence and their descriptors. On the basis of competence and level building approach the levels of formation of the professionally oriented competence in English speaking have been given. Levels of its formation were described according to the European Scales. Global Levels, Sublevels and “Plus Levels” have been introduced and categorized. “Plus” levels represent a strong performance of each level with more active participation in conversation. To sum up, standartisation of levels of the developed foreign communicative competence and professionally oriented competence in foreign speaking must be carried out within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The most appropriate form of levels is three-level structure: the lowest level is a basic one, an introductory level of a foreign language professionally oriented speaking. It starts with the level A2; the second intermediate level is level B, and the most advanced level is C. Each level is subdivided into two sublevels A2, B1 and B2, C1 and C2 and is described in details by “Plus” levels.