Keyword: «competence»

The author examines the implementation of competence-based approach in teaching foreign languages to students of nonlinguistic humanitarian specialties. The author presents the generalized experience of the chair of foreign languages to form students’ competence according to the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards of Russian Federation.

The author believes that one of the ways of intensification of educational activity of students, enhancing their motivation to learn foreign language and educational activity and creativity is the competence approach in teaching foreign languages. The article defines the most effective methods and techniques of teaching students a foreign language from the position of a competence approach.

The author deals with the problem of cross-cultural communication as a mean of communication in the process of teaching foreign languages. The author believes that socio-cultural aspects are the most important and necessary in the process of training of future specialists.

Updated competence approach in the training of students of pedagogical high school in the conditions of introduction of new educational standards is proved in the article. Formation of a foreign language professional communicative competence of the student is seen as a prerequisite for a successful career of students of pedagogical high school. The methods, techniques and educational technology for formation of foreign language professional communicative competence of students of pedagogical high school based on practical experience in the Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University during Foreign Language lessons are described.

The author sums up the author’s experience in using didactic materials of detective genre while teaching cross-cultural communication at a linguistic university to increase the students’ motivation to learning. The author attempts to illustrate how various teaching methods involving whodunits and detective fiction boost interactive and visual compounds of a class and enhance its authenticity, which, in turn, increases creativity and emotional involvement of the students in ESL learning. Motivational component of ESL teaching, creativity, whodunit at ESL classes, interactive games at a foreign language lesson, visualization at ESL classes, authenticity of teaching materials.