The Essence of the Future Foreign Language Teacher’s Professional Lexical Competence and Its Formation on an Interdisciplinary Basis

Abstract

The article, based on the analysis of scientific views of scientists, focuses on the necessity and importance of considering the essence of the future foreign language teacher's professional lexical competence and its formation on an interdisciplinary basis. The article emphasises the importance of lexical skills in the context of interdisciplinary relations as an integral part of foreign language lexical competence, describes their specificity and conditions of formation based on the advantages of building foreign language lexical competence on an interdisciplinary basis. It has been found that the presence of special tasks aimed at assessing the ability to use vocabulary in various types of speech activity in all forms of international examinations also indicates the recognition of the particular importance of mastering lexical material. This will help students to form a new vocabulary, an understanding of the sound and graphic representation of a particular lexical unit, and the relationship between a word in a foreign language and its meaning.

The author emphasises that the achievement of a high level of lexical competence is manifested in the free use of direct lexical resources in direct and indirect communication, adequate use of phraseological units, proverbs, sayings, words that are typical for native speakers. The essence is that learning competence is a set of competences for learning foreign languages and cultures in the student's independent learning activities, which is logical, methodological and general in terms of the use of modern educational technologies. Foreign language teaching is based on didactic, methodological, linguistic principles and the use of modern educational technologies. It is noted that the presence of special tasks aimed at assessing the ability to use vocabulary in various types of speech activities in all forms of international examinations also indicates the recognition of the particular importance of mastering vocabulary. This will help students to form a new vocabulary, an understanding of the sound and graphic representation of a particular lexical unit, and the relationship between a word in a foreign language and its meaning.