Tools for development of Spanish lexical competence

Teaching tools are the required component of the teaching foreign languages and cultures system in high educational institutions. The authors of this article offer to complete the current typology of teaching foreign language and culture tools with the help of two more groups. The lexical competence that is one of the components of foreign language communicative competence still remains the target to develop at various levels of foreign language learning. The authors of this article perform an analytical review of modern tools that can form lexical competence for prospective Spanish teachers, mainly at the stage of introducing new lexical units to students. Some illustrative material is provided by teaching tools offered by the authors of didactic materials posted on professional blogs which are aimed on teaching Spanish as a foreign language, as well as tools created by the co-author of this article, Prof. Bihych O. The authors also analyze the implementation of gamification as a new trend in the educational process in didactic materials of Spanish methodologists.