THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS OF INTENDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF INTERGRATING TRADITIONAL AND DISTANT EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is dedicated to technological aspects of developing interactive communicative skills of would-be foreign language teachers in the process of traditional and distant learning. This problem is regarded as an urgent one due to the objective need of foreign language education in teachers having a wide range of communicative skills including those of professional interaction which are essential for the solution to burning professional tasks. The analysis of the concept “interactivity”, the study of the specific features of a foreign language teacher’s professional communication, as well as the structure of their communicative competence have made it possible to define interactive communicative skills as a system of professional and personal qualities providing the readiness to organize and practise both face-to-face and electronically-mediated interaction with other participants of the educational process at all levels aimed at solving cognitive, cultivating, educative and learning tasks of foreign language education. The authors present an algorithm of organizing the process of developing interactive communicative skills in foreign language classes based on the combination of traditional and distant forms of education, give a detailed description of each stage and point out pedagogical conditions providing the effective development of the skills under discussion in the process of the professional training of bachelors of 44.03.05 Pedagogy, specialty “Foreign Language Teaching”. The material presented in the paper leads to the conclusion that the purposeful development of intending foreign language teachers’ interactive communicative skills contributes to the expansion and interiorization of experience of solving burning tasks in the sphere of professional communication.