Constructing a quasi-professional educational environment as a condition of future teachers’ professional and communicative competence formation

The article examines the conditions of constructing future teachers’ (currently B.A. students’) professional and communicative competence in the context of modernization of the present-day system of higher education, which stipulate the need to rethink the concept of future professionals’ competence and the transition from sector-specific professional competencies to meta-competencies of a wider scope associated with the peculiarities of professional and communicative communication. Following on from the theoretical and methodological analysis, it is concluded that the construction of a quasi-professional educational environment reconstituting the conditions of professional communication can be organized in the form of solving situational case problems using such technologies as subject-language integrated learning, blended learning visualization and podcasting. The methodological validity of the proposed scientific research results on constructing a quasi-professional educational environment to form future teachers’ professional and communicative competence has been confirmed by the results of their evaluation at the Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy (branch) of Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Yalta) and Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev (Krasnoyarsk).