IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT-BASED TECHNOLOGY IN THE BLENDED EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN PEDAGOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Nowadays the Ukrainian society demands that a specialist of the New Ukrainian School should be prepared to perform their professional functions effectively and fully participate in all spheres of life. This article highlights the topical issues of organizing the educational process in higher educational establishments in Ukraine, namely the formation of general and professional competencies of primary school teachers in accordance with regulations: the law of Ukraine "On Education", professional standard for professions "Primary school teacher in the establishment of general secondary education", "Primary education teacher (with a diploma of junior specialist)". This article presents the analysis of the implementation the project-based technology in the educational process of Pedagogical College as an effective means of students’ personal and social development during the classes from different disciplines, students’ self-work as well as during the aprobation and undergraduate practice. The paper provides an overview of the implementation of project-based technology in the process of blended learning a foreign language to achieve the main goals of language learning by future teachers, which involves effective communication in oral and written forms, language use as a means of intercultural communication, the ability to use language as a tool in the cultural dialogue in the modern world. The authors substantiate the didactic potential of interactive teaching methods, in particular the project-based technology, as a component of the system of the formation of the communicative competence in the process of learning English. The analysis and the generalization of the foreign language instructors experience in Lutsk Pedagogical College are done taking as an example the process of organizing the educational process implementing interdisciplinary practiceoriented long-term project "Lina Kostenko. The poetess above an epoch", which involved the students from the Primary Education department with the additional qualification “English language teacher in primary school”. The effectiveness of the project-based technology in the system of formation the general and professional competencies of students of higher educational institutions of Ukraine, as well as communicative competence in particular is proved in this article.