SPECIAL ASPECTS OF EVALUATION OF MULTILINGUAL COMPETENCE LEVEL OF A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER

The paper emphasizes the importance of teaching the second foreign language in terms of the requirements of the State Educational Standards. In this regard, the issue of modeling the courses of the advanced studies for the second foreign language teachers becomes significant. Such refresher courses should be based on module approach with regard for individual educational needs of a teacher and take into account such principles as flexibility and variability.

The purpose of this study is to create the evaluation tool of the educational need of a second foreign language teacher. This evaluation tool will facilitate the creation of the targeted individual programme for the further education courses. A questionnaire is used to determine the educational needs and identify the lack of competences which are the component parts of the second foreign language teacher professional competence.

The paper considers multilingual communicative and methodological competence as the core of the second foreign language teacher professional competence. It is its components that should become the objects of improvement in the course of training teachers in the system of professional development.

Initial testing serves as a starting point for designing targeted training courses for the second foreign language teachers in a competence-based projection based on the module approach. Evaluation of the testing results gives an opportunity to define the invariant modules, which are compulsory for all students, such as multi-linguistic, multi-conversational, supporting and comparative. These modules are intended for development of the least developed subcompetences of the teachers. The analysis of individual testing results will allow the creation of a study path unique for every teacher based on their educational needs. It will combine an individual complex of variable modules with regard to the results of the initial testing.