FORMATION OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE MASTER'S DEGREE

Abstract

Modern society is focused on the growth of various types of interpersonal interaction, including speech communication, which leads to increased requirements for the quality of appropriate training of future primary school teachers, i.e. improvement of communicative competence, which will ensure their active professional activity in the future. The need to update the content of this process is related to various aspects of primary school modernization: the transition to the implementation of the Concept of a new Ukrainian school, support for its humanization, child-centered ideas; implementation of the principles of competency-based and person-oriented approaches in the education of younger schoolchildren, etc. In the social aspect, the importance of researching the communicative competence of primary school teachers is determined by the lack of speech and especially rhetorical culture, both professional and general (culture of thinking, speech, communication). In the pedagogical aspect, its development is aimed at the formation of productive, creative thinking and is based on the ethical principles of morality, and therefore is an important component of the formation of a harmonious personality as the greatest value in a democratic society. In the pedagogical activity of a teacher, communication is professionally significant, as it accompanies all types of work, and therefore the communicative skills of students of the second (master's) level of higher education are determined by the educational and professional program «Initial Education» of the Berdyansk State Pedagogical University: «To communicate in academic Ukrainian in oral and written forms, use communicative strategies, form students' ability for mutual understanding, interpersonal interaction». As evidenced by the results of the initial survey (according to M. Schneider) to identify professional and personal needs in the formation of communicative competence of future primary school teachers, in general, they respond favorably to the methods and techniques that were used in the classes on «Fundamentals of scientific communication and academic culture». At the same time, it was noted that the greatest difficulties for the master's students were caused by exercises of a practice-oriented nature regarding the prediction of the effectiveness of one's own communicative activity and the analysis of pedagogical speech, as well as the determination of ways of its continuous improvement.