Valida Djabrailova

The paper presents an analysis of competitive activity in the perspective of a competence-oriented approach, which allows not only foregrounding interdisciplinary communication, but also contributes to the formation of a special motivation to further mastering the basics of professional activity in a higher educational institution. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of theoretical works on the issue of the application of competitive activity in the formation of professional competences in higher education. The study notes that a professional competition involving the pragmatic and cognitive components of education can serve as a starting mechanism in stimulating interest in further profession mastering. The aim of the study is to evaluate the degree of effectiveness of professionally-oriented competitive activity in the formation of competences for students majoring in translation and translation studies. The main research methods include theoretical analysis and synthesis of methodological and pedagogical literature, the study of foreign and domestic experience in training specialists, empirical methods – observation, pedagogical experiment, diagnostics, which confirmed the viability of the initial hypothesis and the effectiveness of the developed system of competitive tasks; auxiliary research methods – analysis of university documentation and methods of statistical processing of empirical data made it possible to evaluate the results of the experiment, to give a theoretical justification for the practical results obtained. Terminological analysis showed that at the moment such concepts as “competitive activity” and “competition” are practically not represented in the pedagogical-reference literature. The authors conclude that competitive activity, which is interpreted, above all, as an effective form of game training, is a productive and effective means of teaching students. It is noted that a higher school teacher faces a number of difficulties in implementing the above approach in the framework of classroom activity. On the basis of a retrospective analysis of the experiments of translation competitions, it is indicated that such a competitive extracurricular event allows us to set a new vector in the development of general and professional competences among students of translation specialty. Theoretical substantiation of the effectiveness of competitive activity as an auxiliary tool in the training of specialists in the field of translation can make a certain contribution to the development of the theory of vocational education. The practical significance of the study lies in the opportunity to apply the methodology of the competition, presented as a set of individual tasks.

The urgency of the problem stated in the article is conditioned by the necessity to analyze the mechanisms of informational support to the Russian higher inclusive education. From this viewpoint, teaching a foreign language requires new approaches to the use of the linguistic and educational potential of e-learning modalities in order to develop the personal skills of students with disabilities, to encourage their creative thinking, and to form the ability of finding strategic solutions to both academic pursuits and practical tasks when learning a foreign language. The purpose of this study is to scientifically and practically substantiate the linguo-didactic potential of electronic teaching aids (ETA) when teaching foreign languages in inclusive education. The research is based on the following methods: theoretical analysis and synthesis of the Russian and foreign learned treatises on the subject, pedagogical observation and the method of analyzing communicative competence in teaching foreign language to students with disabilities in an inclusive university. Based on the research findings, the article presents the scientific substantiation, essence and structure of the integrated implementation of the electronic teaching aids linguo-didactic potential in teaching foreign languages in inclusive education. The theoretical value of the research is as follows: it analyzes and summarizes the main theoretical approaches to ETA linguo-didactic potential in inclusive foreign languages teaching; reveals and defines the concept of "electronic teaching aids" in the system of social and humanitarian knowledge; specifies the ETA characteristics. The practical significance of the research results lies in distinguishing the components of the methodological support for using the ETA linguo-didactic potential when teaching foreign languages in an inclusive educational institution. The basic premises can be used in scientific and pedagogical staff training and upgrade training courses for university teachers who work with students with disabilities.