METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Abstract

The article discusses the importance of fully substantiating methodological guidelines for deepening scientific understanding of the process of teaching foreign languages in the modern educational process in higher education institutions. The importance of relying on a comprehensive set of methodological approaches that ensure a comprehensive and balanced analysis of this process is emphasised. Self-reflection on pedagogical experience has demonstrated the expediency of distinguishing between competence-based, personality-oriented, activity-based and systemic approaches as complementary methodological foundations that determine the effectiveness of modern foreign language teaching. As a result of the pedagogical discourse, the essence of scientific approaches and their significance in the context of foreign language teaching has been clarified. In particular, the competence-based approach involves the formation of future specialists not so much in terms of knowledge and skills, but rather in terms of the development of key competences; the personality-oriented approach involves taking into account the individual needs and interests of each student, while the activity-based approach requires the active involvement of future specialists in educational and cognitive activities and the formation of the relevant ‘soft’ skills necessary for the constructive solution of professional tasks; a systematic approach involves considering the process of developing professional competence as a holistic pedagogical system.