GLOBAL COMPETENCE IN EFL TEACHERS' EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of development of EFL teachers’ global competence. It analyses the importance of development of new EFL teachers’ training programs taking the development of global competence as a part of professional literacy into account. It characterizes the possibilities to develop global competence in the process of English learning: setting up projects in English that are proposed by a teacher and relevant to new important discoveries of the humanity; reading and analyzing English literature; writing an essay; on-line discussions in English and meeting with foreigners. The success of a modern student, future EFL teacher, is determined by not only speaking skills, but also by knowledge and personal interest in global problems, as well as skills and abilities for cross-cultural communication, as well as the willingness to be accustomed to the new challenges of the world. The importance to develop EFL teachers’ global competence that becomes apparent in the possibility to understand global problems and the capacity to solve them has increased. EFL teachers’ global competence is cosely connected to a communicative competence. Future EFL teachers demonstrate the capacity to understand and perceive different audiences in order to achieve the general aim; realize the influence of effective communication on a collaboration in the interdependent world. A global competence opens a way not only to knowledge about the world but also stimulates to act, to understand and create possibilities to change something using creative ideas at local, regional or state level. Global education allows to evaluate the potential influence of own opinions and judgements on other people, to define their consequences.