Formation of Literary Competence in Philological Specialties in the Course of Modern Kazakh Literature at the University

The article deals with the problem of the formation of literary competence in the course of modern Kazakh literature. The relevance of the study is due to the need to implement a competency-based approach in university education. The study of modern literature of Kazakhstan is also an urgent task of today. The professional training of a future philologist should include a holistic understanding of the modern literary process, including the domestic one. In the course of the study, historical-functional, intermedial, biographical, systemic methods and modeling methods were applied. The authors provide an overview of scientific points of view on the problem of the competence-based approach in education, compares different approaches to the definition of competence and competencies, to the relationship between these two concepts. A directed study of the phenomenon of literary competence was carried out, in connection with which an overview of the definitions of the concept was given, and then descriptors of literary competence were developed on the basis of the works of Ermek Tursunov. The authors proposes a methodology for the formation of literary competence with the help of a system of tasks based on the genre approach. The results of a pedagogical experiment proving the effectiveness of the methodology are reflected. The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the methodological system for the formation of the literary competence of future philologists through the development of descriptors and the use of methodological tools. The methods used in the research process were sociological, intermedial, historical-functional methods, as well as the method of pedagogical diagnostics of the level of formed literary competence. The main conclusion obtained by the researchers was that the use of a methodological system for the formation of literary competence in the study of the works of E. Tursunov, consisting of descriptors, a complex of diagnostic tools, a set of tasks, improves the quality of education through an increase in the level of formation of literary competence.The authors see the future direction of research in expanding the field of application of the methodological system through a change in training courses, the material used, and the student body. The results obtained in the course of the study can serve as the basis for the methodological support of the process of forming the literary competence of a philologist in the development of training courses.