DEFINITIONS OF "SKILL" AND "COMPETENCE" IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITION AND INNOVATION (METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM)
The article aims to examine and compare essence, functions of definitions "skill" and "competence" in the field of traditional and innovative education. The author using the analysis method of knowledge systems considers developmental history of skills in the methods of teaching literature of the late twentieth century and developmental history of the competence-based approach in European and Russian education. Analyze of the development of the fore cited definitions revealed that the innovative definition of "competence", which has become the primary goal of modern education, includes a complex of valuable for the teaching methodology of literature components, and therefore this definition does not substitute the traditional term "skills", which emerged full blown in the late twentieth century, as "skills" are the practical results of short-term goals, which being components of the competence-based approach in the training process and after training form various individual competencies.