Drama pedagogy as a means of future teachers communicative competence development (based on the discipline «Culture of speech and pedagogical rhetoric»)

the article studies the problem of using drama pedagogy as a means to establish the communicative competence of future teachers. The text covers the theoretical formulation of the expediency of drama pedagogy tools usage for teaching students to develop their communicative competence as a pedagogical skill component. The author presents a set of drama pedagogy tools helping form the communicative skills, namely: masks, creative diaries, games, training, dramatic situations.) The methodology of experimental work conducted during the process of teaching the discipline «Culture of Speech and Pedagogical Rhetoric», the area «Pedagogical Education» (undergraduate) is described. The obtained data proved the efficacy of drama pedagogy tools in the process of future teachers training such as the knowledge quality and the level of motivation increase and communicative skills development.