THE DISCIPLINE “SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEACHING A SCHOOL COURSE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE” AS A SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS

Abstract

The article is an attempt by the authors to summarize many years of experience in teaching the discipline “Scientific Foundations of Teaching a School Course of a Foreign Language” and to substantiate the need to include this lecture course in the curricula for training foreign language teachers. The system of competencies that need to be built in students in the process of mastering this discipline is considered, the teaching technology is described, and methodological recommendations for organizing work in lectures and practical classes are proposed. It is proven that traditional teaching methods are not effective enough, which have led to realization of the need to change approaches to organizing the educational process in accordance with modern requirements. The use of active learning methods in the process of teaching the discipline in question allows us to solve this problem. The authors proposed possible forms of work in lectures and practical classes. It is convincingly proven that knowledge of the basics of the theory of teaching foreign languages is an integral part of the training of future teachers, without which the acquisition of other disciplines of the linguodidactic block will not be successful enough. In one form or another, the discipline in question should be included in the training program for students in the pedagogical field of study at the initial stage in order to develop professional competencies at a higher level.