Developing Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Senior Students on Basis of Web-quests Technology at the Pedagogical University

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of developing communicative competence in a foreign language in a pedagogical university for undergraduate students. The stages of work on a web quest are analyzed from the point of view of communicative interaction of students in the context of digitalization of the educational process. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of the educational technology of web quests in the educational process in order to form a foreign language communicative competence of student teachers in the senior courses of a pedagogical university. Methodology and research methods. The study was carried out as part of the introduction of a project-based learning system into the program of the discipline “Foreign Language” / “Practice of Oral and Written Speech” at the senior courses of the Institute of Childhood and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University in order to expand interactive methods for the formation and improvement of the communicative competence of students. The methods used were the analysis of methodological, psychological-pedagogical and special scientific/professional literature on the research problem, pedagogical observation of the students’ communicative activity, analysis of experimental data obtained during the survey. Research results. The article describes the communicative actions of students in a foreign language in stages in accordance with the logic of building a web quest. They are also correlated with the “ideal pattern”– the teacher’s communicative culture. Some features of foreign language communication of students– future teachers– the use of high tones at the phonetic level are named. The predominance of imperative speech at the grammatical level. At the lexical level– the exploitation of the same language clichés in various communicative situations instead of various language formulas. A number of web quests on the topic “Man and the Environment” were developed and tested at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and the Institute of Childhood for specialties with a specialized foreign language. Conclusion. The problem of developing foreign language communicative competence is one of the key ones for teachers teaching a foreign language. In the context of the digitalization of education, higher education teachers are turning to methods of teaching a foreign language, combining the intensive development of language competence and the use of the Internet. Such a synthesis allows them to achieve high results in the involvement of students in communicative activities and, as a result, the development of foreign language communicative competence.