USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FORMATION OF LINGUODIDACTIC COMPETENCE OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Abstract

The article explores the use of information and communication technologies for the development of future foreign language teachers’ linguodidactic competence. On the grounds of the analysis of the scientific and pedagogical literature the authors have proved the topicality and importance of applying information and communication technologies in future foreign language teachers’ training. The empirical methods (questionnaires, observation, surveys) were used to determine the current situation with the application of information and communication technologies in the process of future foreign language teachers’ professional training. The essence of the key notions of the research has been specified: “information and communication technologies”, “professional and pedagogical competence”, “future foreign language teachers’ linguodidactic competence”. The experience of applying information and communication technologies in the process of training foreign language teachers has been presented, as the abovementioned technologies have been proved to be an important means for the formation of future foreign language teachers’ linguodidactic competence. It has been determined that educational information and communication technologies (multimedia presentations, cloud services, blog, video scribing, e-portfolio, web-quests, etc.) provide unique didactic possibilities to form future foreign language teachers’ linguodidactic competence, namely: create conditions for working with foreign language business documents, modeling virtual environment for foreign language business communication, obtaining linguistic and extralinguistic information, contribute to all types of speech activity (reading, speaking, listening, writing), presenting and looking for data on languages and countries, etc. Particular attention has been paid to such kind of work with information and communication technologies as creating personal e-portfolios, which demonstrate creativity, innovativeness and professional competence of the modern teacher and develop future teachers’ self-presentation and self-reflection skills. There has been determined and experimentally proved the effectiveness of using information and communication technologies in the formation of future foreign language teachers’ linguodidactic competence.