UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT AS A CATEGORY OF PEDAGOGICAL HERMENEUTICS AND A FACTOR OF FORMATION IN STUDENTS OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY
Transforming under the influence of radical changes in the life of the world as a whole and Russian society in particular, the modern education system in Russia is undergoing significant conceptual changes, mainly due to the unprecedented hitherto technologization of all, without exception, its components - strategy, concept, practice, which is not reflected in the last place in the conceptual apparatus and its content. The goal is to assess the level of formation of textual skills, in particular, understanding of the text, as a condition for improving students' functional literacy. Materials and methods. The number of subjects - 112 people (women), at the age of 17-18 years. An experimental study was carried out among first-year students of the "Pedagogical Education" direction of the profiles "Primary Education", "Primary Education and a Foreign (English) Language using the adapted criteria for assessing the reading literacy of international studies PIZA. The study showed a low level of hermeneutic competence (understanding of the text) among students, which is an indicator of the corresponding degree of functional literacy. Expected results: hermeneutic competence, the gradual formation of which the proposed system of optimization of the educational process in a pedagogical university is aimed at, will significantly increase the level of functional literacy of students-future teachers, which will ensure success in educational, research activities and professional readiness for teaching elementary school students to text skills, first of all, understanding the text. It is obvious that there is a need to optimize the educational process at the university through purposeful systematic work, which ensures the improvement of the textual competence of future primary school teachers as one of the most important components of the functional literacy of the students themselves and the readiness for professional activity in this area.