METHODS OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEXICAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

The paper considers the formation of future foreign language teachers’ professional lexical competence in the classes on home-reading. The paper provides the authors’ definition of this phenomenon, the results of the students’ testing are shown, the basic principles for selection of professionally-oriented English texts are presented, the plot, theme and developing problem situations used for the formation of professional lexical competence of students are described.