FORMATION OF CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE PHILOLOGIST: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT

Responding to new challenges of the 21st century, education should prepare a communicative, creative, competitive specialist, ready for high-quality professional activities, able to adapt to a new educational environment, and to a critical rethinking of a significant number of innovations. Nowadays in Ukraine, there is a change of priorities; the role of education is enhanced by culture, arising a need fоr a specialist who has cultural competence. The following tasks were identified: to clarify the essence of the concept of “cultural competence” and prove the need of its formation in the future philologistʼs teacher; to analyze the cultural meaning of the social line of the program in the Ukrainian language for the 5–9 grades; to disclose the methodological aspect of the studying of ethnocultural material in the lessons of the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, and Ukrainian studies. The article states that the upbringing moral and ethical values of each young person will be carried out during such an educational process, aimed at the formation of its worldview enriched with humanistic views and ideals inherent in Ukrainian ethnoculture. The philologist, who will have formed professional competences and primarily, a cultural one, will be able to prepare a cultural young generation. The current cultural competence of the future philologist will indicate his/her ability to realize himself/herself as a carrier of the culture of a certain ethnic group. The determining components of its cultural competence consider the following: the ability to master their native language at a high level; understanding of cultural ethnic images reflected in the Ukrainian literature; awareness of the peculiarities of the mentality, the nature and psychology of their ethnos; determination of cultural differences of its ethnos from the cultures of other ethnic groups. Such a philologist will subsequently help a young person to master the ability to analyze and evaluate the achievements of Ukrainian culture and orient to the ethnocultural space of the nation. Keywords: cultural competence, future philologist, formation, technique, vocational training, cultural communication, sociocultural content line, ethnoculture.