FORMATION OF AUDIOVISUAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO STUDENTS OF ENGINEERING SPECIALTIES

The article reveals the content of the concept of audiovisual competence. To formulate the category of foreign language audiovisual competence in educational activities, it is necessary to take into account the nature of the perception of the language of multimedia. In general, the act of perceiving information and its processing is decomposed into a number of stages, involving the following sequentially proceeding processes: perception correlation with the image stored in memory > recognition > understanding > processing. That is, the influence occurs at the level of consciousness and subconsciousness, rational and emotional. Currently, in accordance with the requirements of existing programs for students of engineering specialties, graduates must not only be proficient in their specialty, but also have good training in a foreign language, that is, possess skills in various types of speech activity - listening, speaking, reading, writing and audiovisualization. As a result of the analysis of interconnections, it seems important to include the following components in the audiovisual competence: information, communication, media-cultural, autopsychological, social interaction and personal development. Thus, within the framework of foreign language intercultural education, audiovisual competence is defined as the ability and willingness to perceive consciously visual cultural information in various media sources, critically interpret and evaluate, use a creative approach in creating cultural images and consciously use them in the practice of intercultural interaction as a mediator of cultures.