Zalibovska-Ilnytska Z. The Professional Training of the Prospective Teachers for the Development of the Communicative Competence in Junior Pupils

The thesis is the experimental and theoretical research of the problem of the junior grades teachers' professional training for the development of the communicative competence in the junior pupils. The historical and pedagogical aspects of communication development as the foundation of the prospective teachers' professional training for the development of the communicative competence in the junior pupils are disclosed. The analysis of the scientific approaches to the prospective teachers' professional training and the practice of the communicative competence development in the junior pupils are made. The essence and mutual ties of the basic concepts of the research work ("competence", "communication", "communicative competence", "communicative competence of the junior pupil", "the readiness of the prospect teachers to the formation " communicative competence of the junior pupil") are analyzed. The authentic technology of the junior grade teachers' professional training to the development of the communicative competence in the junior pupils is grounded and experimentally proved; the criteria characteristic of the readiness to the mentioned trend of the professional activity are defined. The main results of the thesis are introduced in the educational process of the higher educational establishments.