PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE PROCESS OF FORMATION OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AMONG CADETS IN THE MILITARY INSTITUTE OF LAND FORCES

Abstract

In this article, the author studies the psychological and pedagogical foundations of the process of formation of communicative competence among cadets of the Military Institute of the Land forces. Communicative competence is considered as a broad term that includes not only the structural features of the language, but also its social, pragmatic and contextual features. The formation of students ‘ communicative competence is facilitated by the use of foreign language teaching technology based on the use of a student-centered approach. Its essence lies in the consistent implementation of pedagogical procedures, operations and techniques that together make up an integral didactic system. The implementation of this system in the practice of the teacher contributes to both the formation of communicative competence and the comprehensive development of the student’s personality. This technology assumes the maximum transfer of the teaching initiative to students at all stages of cognitive activity, during which the teacher acts as a consultant, adviser, with extensive experience and knowledge. In addition, it contains elements of communicative and problem-based learning, includes search methods, thanks to which cadets independently set tasks and conduct research on problems, creatively extract and apply knowledge, carry out self- / mutual assessment, self- / mutual control, forming internal motivation to improve the achieved level of communicative competence.