Traditional approaches and modern tecnologies in forming the foreign language speech competence of applicants for vocal specializations: multilingual dimension

The formation of foreign language speech competence of applicants for vocal specializations is an important task of art higher education in Ukraine, especially in the context of rapid globalisation. In particular, the need to master Ukrainian as the language of the educational process, Italian as the basic language for professional activity, and English – with a projection on international interaction is fully justified. Using the example of three languages, the specifics of pedagogical work on the development of speech skills with an emphasis on the communicative component are comprehensively presented. The importance of taking into account the individual, personal, ethnopsychological and professional characteristics of the outlined student audience is emphasized. Among traditional and modern approaches, the most optimal methodological strategies are recognized as: a combination of productive and reproductive types of speech activity within the framework of one lesson; changing the function of the teacher; justified value-semantic and professionally-oriented motivation; cross-cultural interaction; a variety of types of educational and extracurricular activities; multimodality; research and cognitive activity; the use of the latest information technologies, etc.