Strategies of research competence development in language teacher education

Abstract

The article presents a model of researcher training of students in university-level language teacher education programmes. Based on the Russian Federal Educational Standard of  Higher Education and the  Educational Standard of  Lomonosov Moscow State University, the authors of the article describe the main components of the language teacher’s research competences. The content of researcher training is outlined for the second, third and fourth year of the BA-programmes and the two years of  the  MA-programmes. The  article also suggests research competences assessment procedures and tools. Combining the  approaches of  a  classical and a  pedagogical university, federal and university-developed standards, the  article can serve as a foundation of researcher training programmes development, design of courses aimed at the development of the research competences and to develop specifications of researcher competences assessment for trainee language teachers on different levels of higher education.