Students-teachers' communication competence: basic social communication skills and interaction involvement

Current teacher pre-service education draws attention to communication competence as a highly important component of teacher professional competencies. The study explores the social communication skills and interaction involvement of two student-teacher generations. 195 students-teachers educated at the departments of primary school class teacher education, answered the items of two instruments - Social Skills Inventory and Interaction Involvement Scale. The analysis of the quantitative data indicates that there are no differences in the degree of development and the structure of social communication competence. The correlations between basic social skills components and interaction involvement components are significant. Student-teachers' self-assessed communication skills are developed at a moderate level, thusly being a proper basis for advancement in this domain.