1. What are the eight important objectives of teacher education?

26. What are the functions of communicative culture?
The main requirements to the FL specialists are followings: the information, cultural
and professional literacy. Cultural literacy is communicative culture on the FL as a set
of personal communicative properties and skills characterized by conventions, norms
and requirement for professional communication. Communicative culture fulfills the
following functions: informative, affective, regulative, motivational and reflexive.
Information literacy is closely connected with cultural one. It includes the following
skills: 1) to define the possible sources of information and strategies for its searching;
2) to analyze the received information and to fix it with the help of schemes, tables,
words, etc.; 3) to evaluate the information from the position of reliability, precision,
sufficiency; 4) to realize the need in additional information and to receive it if it is
possible; 5) to use the results of the searching process for analysis and evaluation of the
information; 6) to create the new solution; 7) to see alternative ways of problemsolving; 8) to be ready to interact with colleagues, to take the critics and the advices
and offers.
27. What are the characteristics of a pedagogically competent teacher?
To be highly motivated teachers are needed to develop their competence. The
Association for the Professional Quality of Teachers, SBL (2004) mentioned that a
pedagogically competent teacher suggests the students a safe learning and working
environment, where they find their hold and a structure for social, emotional, and moral
development. This competent teacher ascertains that the students:
1. Know that they belong, that they are welcome and appreciated Treat respectfully each
other and are challenged to take for one another
2. Take the initiatives and work autonomously
3. Learn to discover their affinities and ambitions, and from there make
4. The choice for study and career.