CONTENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LECTURER

Abstract

The article deals with the content of professional competence of foreign language lecturer. The aim of the article is to comprehensively delineate and analyze the essential professional competencies required by foreign language lecturers. Scientific works devoted to the study of the competences of foreign language teachers became the basis of the research methodology. The main methods of the conducted research were the methods of analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis, systematization, and generalization. It seeks to offer a structured framework that encapsulates the skills, knowledge, and attributes necessary to effectively teach a foreign language in diverse educational settings. It is generalised that the professional competence of foreign language lecturer is a unity of theoretical and practical readiness of teachers to carry out their professional activities. The current state of theory and practice of professional pedagogical training of foreign language lecturer is analysed. The conceptual foundations of the formation and development of foreign language lecturer's professional competence are substantiated regarding the prospects and strategies of pedagogical science development. The analysis of peculiarities and values of pedagogical activity, taking into account the need to transform and improve the modern pedagogical system, allowed us to conclude that it is expedient to organise the educational process in such a way that involves the formation of professional competence of foreign language lecturer on the basis of a system of internal motives and values, professional knowledge and psychological and pedagogical skills, as well as readiness for creative pedagogical work.