Analysis of the Current State of Forming Intending Primary School Teachers’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence in the Process of Professional Training

Current state of forming intending primary school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence in the process of professional training according to the legislative framework of Ukraine is analysed in the article. Changes and new social demands on the identity of primary school teachers, including the need to teach a foreign language together with other subjects, necessitate the improvement and achievement of the effectiveness of the foreign language education process in the primary education faculties in pedagogical institutions of higher education. Pedagogical higher education should aim to stimulate and motivate students to acquire a foreign-language professionally-oriented communication competence. The analysis of the issue under study in the state legal documents regulating the primary education specialists training, indicates that the whole documentary base orientates the primary school teachers’ professional education to the development of their communication skills and proves the importance of forming the foreign language communicative competence of intending primary school teachers. Studying the educational programs of a number of higher education pedagogical establishments gives grounds to state that the professional training educational programs of bachelors on the specialty 013 "Primary Education" are aimed at realization of state requirements for defined competence formation. The article is based on the analysis of the bachelor degree programs for specialty 013 "Primary Education" in higher education institutions of Ukraine; a number of courses, the didactic potential of which has objectively laid out opportunities for forming the foreign language communicative competence are distinguished. In the process of studying the courses, integration with foreign language can be used in the context of modern requirements for professional training.