CRITERIA AND LEVELS OF MEDIA COMPETENCE AMONG THE CADETS OF HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
This article represents a pedagogical, methodological analysis to assess media competence among cadets of higher military educational institutions in the process of foreign language teaching. The identification of indicators, criteria, and levels of formation of media competence among cadets of higher military educational institutions via the process of foreign language teaching was based on the analysis of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in subject area 56.05.04 Personnel management (Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and equivalent bodies of the Russian Federation), language material, pedagogical, methodological scientific papers concerning the essence of the concept of "media competence". The academic discipline “Foreign Language” has certain capabilities to exercise particular elements of media competence among cadets of higher military educational institutions. It allows them to learn how to critically perceive a huge flow of information, to be able to distinguish true facts from false ones, to show a positive attitude, high motivation to work with media sources, to provide respect in media space. The authors proved that the main components of media competence among cadets of higher military institutions are cognitive, motivational and behavioral components. The levels of media competence formation among cadets of higher military educational institutions were established in accordance with the criteria and their indicators and were identified as educational, normative, perspective.