ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE OFFICERS

According to the Ukraine integration in the European Union, the NATO integration course and the fact that NGU officers are constantly involved in international cooperation, we analyzed in the article the state of development of NGU officers’ language competence and systematized the results of the state of language competence of NGU officers and key characteristics of the language competence development in officers ass well as readiness of the officers for self-education and for the language competence development. A monitoring study was conducted by surveying NGU officers to determine the current state of language competence development in NGU officers and the attitude of officers to innovative technologies and distance learning technologies in the language competence development. We consider the creation of various conditions for the study to be an urgent problem of training NGU officers. Among them there are organizational, pedagogical, technical, normative conditions; considering of the level of language proficiency of officers and differentiation of training on this basis; improving the content and methods of teaching a foreign language in accordance with the duties and responsibilities of officers, with the specifics of the activities of NGU units; formation of positive motivation in officers to learn the language; providing foreign language practice for officers in daily activities and foreign language environment; multicultural training of officers; DL training for officers. The state of language competence development in officers is outlined with indication of problems of language competence development and emphasis is placed on effective forms of training with a view to developing of language competence components development in NGU officers.