PROSPECTIVE GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHERS TRAINING TO APPLY COMMUNICATIVE-GAME TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING GERMAN AT NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of professional trainingof future teachers of the German language for the use ofcommunicative-game technologies in teaching pupils of thenew Ukrainian school. The expediency of the developmentand teaching of the elective course «communicative-gametechnologies of teaching the German language in secondaryeducation institutions» for third-year students of the bachelor’sdegree in the specialty «secondary education» is substantiated,its goal is determined – the formation of professional competencein the use of communicative-game technologies of teachingthe German language in institutions of secondary education,tasks and content are indicated. The main professionalcompetencies of future teachers, which are necessary for theimplementation of communicative-game teaching of the Germanlanguage in a new Ukrainian school, have been formulated,in particular, professionally oriented methodological skills:to intensify the educational activities of students in the classroomand in extracurricular work in the German language byintegrating communicative and game activities; to providea motivational, content and procedural basis for foreign languagecommunication of students through their participation in varioustypes of game activities; apply a personal-activity approach tolearning and optimal communicative-game techniques, takinginto account the goals of the formation of German-languagecompetence at different stages of training; to select andmethodically competently apply communicative-game techniquesin accordance with the goal of teaching, as well as professionalcommunicativeskills: organize effective German-languageinteraction of students, model and manage communicative-gameactivities of students in German. The experience of conductinglectures and practical exercises of the elective course is highlighted,the sequence of the formation of professional competenceof future teachers in the use of communicative-gametechnologies for teaching the German language in a newUkrainian school at the proposed stages of practical training isdemonstrated, examples of professionally oriented tasks androle-playing games for the formation of appropriate professionalcompetencies are given.