THE PHENOMENON OF COMPENSATOR COMPETENCE AND REPRESENTATION OF ITS STRUCTURE IN LINGUIDIDACTICS

Abstract

In the paper, the authors survey the phenomenon of compensatory competence, based on the works of foreign and Russian researchers. Tracing the evolution of this concept, the authors note that it has been constantly in change. All the researchers have played a role in its better understanding. Thus, their analysis shows that its component composition has well investigated and has been expending. Now it includes not only descriptive and procedural knowledge, skills, but also strategies, personal characteristics and motives of users of a foreign language. The analysis of its characteristics and psychological mechanisms of actualization contributes to deeper understanding of the scope of competence. The study of the definitions and component composition of compensatory competence makes it possible to identify and represent its structure which includes such important elements as individually marked style of overcoming difficulties and a mechanism for mobilizing, activating and transferring existing compensatory resources.