Abstract
The article highlights the features of aims setting process of pre-service primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development, which is based on the definition of the purposes in accordance with the peculiarities of future professional activity. This process is one of the main educational categories and reflects the features of the educational process and the results of professional training of intending primary school teachers.
 The paper focuses on the views of Ukrainian and foreign scientists on the types of aims and their functions in the future teachers’ training.
 This work aimed to outline the features of the aims setting process and to determine the purposes of pre-service primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development.
 The process of determining the purposes of education is to form a system of general scientific and special professional knowledge that provides certain skills of intending primary school teachers. It is noted, that the main requirements for formulating the aims of the educational process are: clarity, hierarchy and diagnostics.
 The competence orientation to general (broad sphere of life), special (narrow sphere of activity) and subject (certain courses) determines three stages of designing the aims of intending primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence formation: establishing strategic (general) aim, concretizing it in tactical purposes and forming operational objectives. Tactical purposes are represented by a set of cognitive, developmental and implementation ones, which are specified by operational objectives. To schematically depict the hierarchy of the aims for the pre-service professionals’ foreign language communicative competence development, the method “Aim Tree” was used, which allows to display the hierarchical structure of the aims by dividing the overall aim (level 1) into subaims (level 2), which in turn are divided into new sub-aims (level 2)
Highlights
A remarkable feature of modern Ukrainian education is renewing the educational sphere, that is determined by the insufficient compliance of its current state with the fleeting demands of society; a surge of bilingualism, intercultural communication, the main means of which is foreign language communicative competence; lingual globalization phenomena; labor market demand, which is not taken into account in the system of training future specialists in the field of primary education; lagging behind global educational trends; total informatization of all spheres of society and the unwillingness of future teachers to organize the educational process, based on information technology; low level of competence of teachers to introduce integrated approaches in the foreign language educational process of primary school
In order to define the purposes of intending primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development, we studied the educational programs of Bachelor degree in Ukrainian pedagogical higher educational establishments on specialty 013 Primary education and analyzed the experience on teaching English to intending primary school teachers
Applying this method to create a system of the aims of intending primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development, in the study we distinguish in the “Aim tree” the following rank hierarchy: general aim; tactical purposes; operational objectives
Summary
A remarkable feature of modern Ukrainian education is renewing the educational sphere, that is determined by the insufficient compliance of its current state with the fleeting demands of society; a surge of bilingualism, intercultural communication, the main means of which is foreign language communicative competence; lingual globalization phenomena; labor market demand, which is not taken into account in the system of training future specialists in the field of primary education; lagging behind global educational trends; total informatization of all spheres of society and the unwillingness of future teachers to organize the educational process, based on information technology; low level of competence of teachers to introduce integrated approaches in the foreign language educational process of primary school. Intending primary schools teachers’ foreign language communicative competence is a part of their professional competence structure and the process of their foreign language communicative competence building determines its outcome in advance. The purpose as a system-forming component of professional training regulates the educational process and determines the methods of its implementation. The issue of aims setting process of intending primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence development is important nowadays
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