Formation of high school students' research competence in the process of learning a foreign language

the article is devoted to the formation of research competence by means of a foreign language. Research competence is defined as a system of special skills that ensure the organization and conducting research in educational settings. The authors proceed from the close relationship between language education and the development of the ability to solve research problems in the process of personality development in students. The formation of research competence in foreign language lessons in high school is examined from the point of view of using such active teaching methods as the fishbone diagram, the mind mapping, the case study method, the key characteristics of which make it possible to develop critical, associative and creative thinking skills, information analysis and synthesis skills, reasoning, defining of frameworks and methods of research. The effectiveness of these methods has been proven in the course of the application of the developed set of practical tasks. The main difficulties that affect the rate of formation of research competence while mastering a foreign language (language barrier, low motivation, different levels of training for students of the same study group) are also identified. The results of the conducted research allow to acknowledge the prospects of the developed set of practical tasks for the formation of research competence and the potential of research activities in the development of both subject and meta-subject competencies of students.

research competence, creative research activities, active teaching methods, foreign language, personality development