SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FUTURE PHILOLOGISTS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AT UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The paper analyzes professional training of future philologists in higher education institutions in Ukraine. It determines and justifies the content of future philologists’ professional training on the example of the degree programme on Germanic Languages and Literature (including Translation), taking into account the new regulatory requirements. It describes the most effective forms, methods and technologies of organizing educational activities of future philologists. It clarifies the components of professional competency of future specialists in Germanic philology. It specifies the procedures and measures for assuring the internal quality of philological education at higher education institutions. Some general characteristics of future philologists’ professional training in higher education institutions in Ukraine, justified in the paper, have proved the need to update the content of such training and introduce effective organizational forms and methods of teaching and learning, which will promote the subject-subject interaction in the educational process, as well as contribute to personality development and assure the quality of education.