SUMMARY
The article analyzes, theoretically justifies and experimentally verifies new approaches to the solution of the actual problem in the field of the theory and methods of professional education – forming the prospective foreign language teachers’ communicative competence by means of multimedia teaching technologies. The generalized analysis of multimedia learning technologies as one of the directions of information technologies has been carried out, the expediency of their application in order to form the prospective foreign language teachers’ communicative competence has been justified. The pedagogical experiment has been conducted and the results of the research on the problem of using the multimedia learning technologies in the process of professional training the prospective foreign language teachers, in particular forming their foreign language communicative competence, have been submitted. Using multimedia learning technologies ensures: effective and high-quality support for various forms of vocational training the prospective foreign language teachers; intensifying the development of students’ intellectual and creative abilities; enhancing the motivation for learning and future professional activity through the successful use of information and communication technologies; improving the quality of learning material; accelerating the formation of the prospective foreign language teachers’ communicative competence; flexibility of thinking when solving professional tasks in the process of future teachers’ vocational training in university. The advantages of using multimedia technologies in the process of training the prospective foreign language teachers include: high technology of their creating and operating, systematic presentation of teaching materials, realization of various functions, expanding opportunities in the process of presenting (visualizing) teaching material. Using multimedia technologies greatly increases the effectiveness of teaching disciplines through the ability of “quick responding” to students’ requests, creating the possibility for timely updating the teaching material, the ability to “adjust” to the students’ individual opportunities and needs through presentation of various trajectories of studying the teaching material and controlling tasks of different levels of complexity.