COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT OF INTENDING TEACHERS BY MEANS OF LEARNING COMMUNITIES

• Main Author: Irina Evgenyevna Krasilova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2014-07-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: communicative competence, learning community, social constructivism, Web 2.0
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/1746

<p>In the information society the role of learning communities in professional training of an individual specialist is growing. Ideas of social constructivism determine the development of the Internet, on which the modern information and learning environment is mainly based.  The article contains definitions of a university learning community and learning community means; a model of communicative competence development of intending teachers of foreign languages by means of a learning community (informational and educational, technical, organizational and methodological); criteria for evaluating the level of communicative competence development. The author considers the communicative competence of intending teachers a part of their professional competence. The model has been tested at a teacher training university. The article presents some results of the experiment and the main conclusions that allow experts to judge the effectiveness of the model and its applicability in vocational education.</p><p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2014-3-8">http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2014-3-8</a></strong></p>