TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SCIENCE STUDENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL SPECIALTIES)

Abstract

The training of highly-qualified, competent and competitive specialists is dictated by the actual needs of modern society. One of the priorities of the current educational paradigm is the development of innovative educational technologies that would promote the development of the key professional competencies of graduates in the educational process at a university.

The higher school is the main place for the implementation of the goals of foreign language professional education and thus it must fully implement its innovative development. The training of specialists focused on a knowledge-based approach to teaching foreign languages does not meet such requirements. The future natural science pedagogical specialists should be ready not only to teach science disciplines in English, but they should also be competent in making contacts in situations of intercultural professionally oriented communication.

The article dwells on modern pedagogical technologies which aim at fostering the formation of intercultural professional communicative competence of undergraduate students enrolled in natural science programs (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc.) at a pedagogical university in Kazakhstan. Within the framework of the current research the authors interpret the competence in question as readiness and willingness of young specialists to successfully integrate and develop professionally in the intercultural and professionally oriented environment.