Implementation of the competence-based approach to teaching foreign languages to the students of secondary vocational education

The article considers the competence-based approach as one of the tools for the modernization of secondary vocational education system. Historiography of the study is an analysis of this approach from the point of view of psychology, in the socio-cultural aspect, as well as from the standpoint of the formation of specific competencies. The implementation of new approaches to teaching foreign languages in vocational education is one of the strong requirements of the new Federal Educational Standards. These approaches help to achieve the main goal of teaching foreign languages - the formation of a language personality capable to communicate in oral and written forms in multicultural environments. The key educational competencies are listed and characterized: value-semantic, general cultural, educational and cognitive, informational, communicative, social labor, self-improvement. The example of the phased structure of the training session in the context of competence-based approach is given. It was determined that the competence-based approach makes the process of learning foreign languages more practice-oriented, contributes to the formation of the competences necessary for foreign communication, formation and development of the intellectual and creative potential of students.Along with the competence-based approach, the compensatory approach is considered, which is used by the teacher when working with students of secondary vocational education system in the framework of studying the discipline “Foreign language in the professional sphere”. To increase the motivation the teacher uses interactive methods such as: business simulation, brainstorming, case study. In addition, much attention should be paid to the techniques used in the teaching of “Foreign language in the professional sphere”: the use of didactic means, communication models ‘teacher-student’ and ‘student-student’, techniques designed to consider intra-relations. All these techniques are important in modern conditions of the psychological component in the training of students of secondary vocational education system. According to the FSES in the direction of training 09.02.04 Information systems an important role is given to the share of independent work, which is also aimed at the development and consolidation of skills and abilities. Thus, the implementation of all competencies will prepare a specialist who freely enters domestic and professional communication.