Methodological prerequisites for intercultural communicative competence development of prospective teachers during individual work

Abstract. Introduction. The article provides an overview of scientific works devoted to the preparation ofprospective teachers of the German language in the process of their individual work. The works of linguodidactistsare analyzed, as well as their scientific contribution to the development and formation of prospective foreignlanguage teachers' intercultural communicative competence. The article presents the scientific works of Ukrainianmethodologists and linguodidactists and demonstrates the current state of the research that concerns the problemof intercultural communicative competence development of the prospective German language teachers inthe process of their individual work. Purpose. Consideration of existing scientific works that touch upon theintercultural competence of prospective German language teachers' development in the process of individualwork. Methods. Analyzed the work ofscientists on each aspect of the topic under study. The analysis of these worksmade it possible to assess the level of elaboration of the issue. Reviewing the scientific papers, dissertationsand articles to determine the importance of our scientific research. There are presented publications that revealthe specifics of teaching undergraduate students in the process of individual work. The necessity of scientificresearch for the intercultural competence of prospective German language teachers' development in theprocess of individual work is determined. Conclusions. The educational and methodological support of theeducational process of undergraduate students majoring in Philology is considered. The relevance of the developmentof a scientific approach to highlighting the specifics of training future teachers of the German language duringtheir individual work is indicated. The absence of scientific and theoretical substantiations was revealed in orderto develop prospective German language teachers' intercultural communicative competence in the process ofindividual work.