Developing future foreign language teachers’ professional competence by creating a favorable educational environment

Abstract

A favorable educational environment in the context of a higher educational institution contributes to the efficient training of future specialists and the development of their professional competence. It is a set of specially created circumstances, tools, and activities in the educational process, which enhance students` motivation and contribute to their academic achievements. The paper analyzes and substantiates the efficiency of a favorable educational environment in the educational process and its influence on developing the professional competence of future specialists, namely future foreign language teachers as in modern society, an individual needs to be able to acquire new means and methods of teaching and learning from various internal and external sources. The scientific research conducted in this paper allowed us to identify the following prerequisites for the formation of a favorable educational environment: organization of a motivating educational environment; organization of students’ reflective activity on the process and the results of their individual and group work as; the use of interactive teaching methods that stimulate the development of independence, critical thinking, teamwork skills; the use of ICT for increasing students’ engagement in the educational process. Creating a favorable educational environment is a key element in student-centered learning providing the teachers and lecturers with the opportunity to vary the work, diversify the materials and tools for teaching and learning and make the monitoring process easier and more efficient. In the paper, it is proved that for future teachers, especially foreign language teachers, developing professional competence during the study is vital as they will have an opportunity to gain the necessary experience to start their future career being already equipped with the skills and methods, strategies and tools for developing their students’ communicative competence.