Foreign language competence development as an integral part of students’ professional training in chinees colleges

Abstract

The paper treats the urgent problem of shaping and development foreign lan-guage competence (FLC) of college students in terms of current economic and social reforms in China. The need to focus on the revealing of the peculiarities of the for-eign language competence formation at college level in China is substantiated. In ac-cordance with its goals, in the work it is considered the essence of foreign language competence as an integral component of the professional training of college students in China. Based on the analysis of the fundamental psychological and pedagogical concepts of competence and foreign language competence, it was formulated the con-cept of foreign language competence of any specialist in its professional aspect as a complex of knowledge and skills of various linguistic and professional branches: lex-ical, grammatical, sociocultural, and pure professional ones. Minding the contempo-rary tasks of Chinese college education, current challenges of vocational training, and necessity to build proper model of the college students’ FLC development, it was de-termined the structure of the competence which has to comprise some inter-connected components: content and language component, motivational component and activity-driven component. Each of the components was highlighted. Considering the devel-opment of FLC as an integral element of the professional training of college students in China, there were revealed some FLC peculiarities. There were also formulated ex-act tasks of college language training in the lines of current economic and socio-cultural challenges of contemporary Chinese society. It was concluded to apply more efficiently and wider digital means which have great potential in terms of FLC devel-opment. The prospects of the following up research are formulated in the lines of re-vealing the role of the ICT instruments for development of the college students’ FLC and finding the benefits of their implementation with the aim of the said challenges overcoming.