The specifics of the foreign language media competence formation of students of pedagogical specialties

Background. Media competence is firmly entrenched among the sought-after competencies in the teaching field. Clarifying the concept of a teacher's foreign-language media competence and considering approaches to its formation is of great interest when considering the pedagogical specialties students competencies. Purpose. To consider the concept of foreign-language media competence and identify trends in the foreign-language media competence formation of students of pedagogical specialties Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the study is a competence-based approach, which is largely practice-oriented, allows students to develop personal qualities and at the same time makes it possible to correlate learning with the humanistic values of education. The goal set in the work is achieved on the basis of theoretical and methodological analysis, systematization and generalization of scientific literature on the foreign-language media competence formation. Results. Taking into consideration the views of scientists on the essence and structure of media competence allows us to propose a definition of foreign-language media competence as the ability to carry out media consumption, media criticism and media design based on knowledge of media, media pedagogy, critical thinking and creative skills of creating media content in accordance with the goals set by the teacher in a foreign language environment of the studied language. The structure of foreign-language media competence is seen in the synthesis of media competence and foreign-language communicative competence that, taking into account the similarity of methods of the both competencies formation, leads us to the foreign-language media competence formation within the CLIL approach based on active teaching methods and the use of passive methods as auxiliary. EDN: XTBNIM