THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE OF FUTURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS THROUGH COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Sociolinguistic competence is an integral part of communicative competence
which includes learning pragmatic and sociolinguistic knowledge, cultural knowledge
about how to use language linguistically and socially appropriately. However, recent
studies highlight to activate such communicative skills among future EFL teachers
regardless of their proficiency level of linguistic knowledge. This article discusses the
ways of developing sociolinguistic competence of future English teachers through
computer technologies.