Kravchenko A. Methodology for differentiated formation of English lexical competence in reading to prospective philologists.

The thesis deals with theoretical substantiation and practical elaboration of the methodology for differentiated formation of English lexical competence in reading to prospective philologists. The thesis address lexical competence in reading to prospective philologist as a system of extra-linguistic knowledge (which is verbalized), knowledge of lexical and phraseological units that represent different styles of speech; lexical receptive skills that integrate reading skills and provide the ability and willingness to interpret and understand (depending on the purpose of reading) written texts of different styles, genres and pragmatics at the semantic, metasemiotic and metametasemiotic levels; motivation, ability and willingness to expand learner’s own vocabulary independently. It has been proved that formation of English lexical competence in reading to prospective philologists should be based on differentiated, competent and communicative approaches, which are based on didactic (awareness, systematics and consistency, individualization, activeness) and methodological (communicative, situational, authenticity of educational material, joint learning of foreign language and foreign culture, domineering role of exercise, taking into account the individual interests of students, functionality, innovation) principles. The method-system of training has been defined as communicative, which is implemented in the methods of modelling and problem-based learning. All exercises have a differentiated approach that is in the content of the exercises, in their purpose, in the way they are performed, in the control given by the teacher during the study performance.