DEVELOPING MEDIATIVE COMPETENCE AS SOFT SKILLS COMPONENT OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of developing soft skills of the students majoring in Foreign Language Teaching. The article aims at designing a set of exercises for developing the mediative competence as a component of future foreign language teachers’ soft skills. The following groups of exercises have been selected and described: non-communicative analytical, receptive, partially analytical mediative, and purely communicative. It is concluded that the mediative competence of future foreign language teachers is acquired by the integration of all types of training exercises.