The article examines socio-cultural aspect of professional training of future foreign language teachers. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the pedagogical conditions and structural and functional model of the socio-cultural competence formation of future foreign language teachers in the system of the pedagogical college. The main task of the study is to determine the structure, criteria, indicators and levels of socio-cultural competence of future foreign language teachers and to develop a structural and functional model of formation of their socio-cultural competence and its experimental verification. The research hypothesis lies in the assumption that the effectiveness of the socio-cultural competence of future foreign language teachers in the process of professional training in the pedagogical college will increase with the implementation of the following pedagogical conditions: the use of integrated socio-cultural tasks with variable content and innovative teaching methods. The formulated structural and functional model of sociocultural competence formation among future foreign language. The author's contribution to the development of the scientific field lies in the fact, that the use of interactive teaching methods encourages students to feel like subjects of socio-cultural competence and be active participants of this process. And this subjective position contributes to the development of cognitive motivation for socio-cultural competence, which contributes to the effective acquisition of socio-cultural knowledge and the effectiveness of the socio-cultural competence formation in general.
The article presents the results of experimental research of foreign language competence level of future social sphere specialist. The experimental data are compared with the results of students’ under study self-assessment of their foreign language competence level. The article shows the results of the influence of methodological system of foreign language training of future social sphere specialist on the increase of the level of foreign language competence among participants of experimental groups. Creative, medium, satisfactory and unsatisfactory levels of foreign language competence of future social sphere specialist are characterized from the point of view students’ reflexion. The research approves the effectiveness of pedagogical influences introduced at the forming stage of the experiment through approbation of the author’s methodical system of foreign language training in the university.
The article is aimed at covering the empirical research results of motivational criterion of foreign language training of future social sphere specialists. The research also grounds the necessity of taking into account motivational and axiological components of foreign language training in the process of implementing the content of student’s professional training. The article explores prevailing types of motivation of young people in education and professional activity. The levels of personal, social, business orientation of future social sphere specialists are diagnosed in the research through analyzing selfish, prestigious, personal, communicative, altruistic, group, pracsical and cognitive motives. The correlation of external and internal motivation of the students under study is characterized. The conclusion of the research emphasizes on the need of taking into account learning motives and activity of future specialists through organization of purposeful conditions of foreign language training. These conditions include modern teaching methods and forms and are aimed at development of conscious business inner motivation of youth.
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