Keyword: «communication competence»

This article deals with criteria-referenced rating as a method of oral speech skills testing. The traditional method of assessment is characterized; its drawbacks in speaking tasks evaluation are stated. The publication deals with educational features of performance assessment and lays emphasis on the elements of speaking assessment. The article also specifies what should be done for the most efficient application of this approach during lessons.

The article provides an analytical description of the state of the teaching foreign languages process in rural schools in Russia. A contradiction was revealed between the increasing requirements of a modern school for foreign language teachers and the insufficiently high level of their actual professional competence. The component composition of the main professional competencies based on personal, communicative and didactic skills of a foreign language teacher is described. The possibilities of the Internet are substantiated in order to increase the level of proficiency in these teaching competencies while solving organizational, pedagogical and methodological tasks of teaching foreign languages in a rural school. The using of active and interactive didactic technologies actualizes the resource potential, and educational Internet portals contribute to the self-education and self-improvement of foreign language teachers.