Keyword: «foreign language teaching»

This article reveals the essence of compensatory competence as the most important component of foreign language communicative competence, and analyzes different approaches to its interpretation in the works of Russian and foreign researchers. Different approaches to understanding compensatory competence and the author's understanding of the essence of compensatory competence are reflected.

This article reveals the potential of the literary artistic genre – fairy tales in teaching a foreign language in primary school. All the positive features of reading fairy-tale texts and their direct correlation with the psychological characteristics of primary school children have been identified. The technique of dramati-zation was used as the basis for teaching speaking (dialogical speech). This method of game modeling is based on the adapted text of a fairy tale. The textbook for primary school of the series ‘English in Focus’, containing fairy tale material that meets the criteria selected by G. Ellis and J. Brewster, was taken as an example to teach junior students reading.

The article describes the experience of organizing professional contests and projects for students in pedagogical education departments and analyzes the influence of participating in such contests on forming the professional competence in education sphere. Professional contests and projects are the instrument of impact on the development of students’ professional skills and a way of forming motivation to the profes-sion of a teacher.