Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2016 9) 229-233 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81`2 The Approaches to Philological Competence as an Integral Part of Professional Competence of a Foreign Language Teacher Irina M. Komiakova* State University of Humanities and Social Studies 30 Zelenaia Str., Kolomna, Moscow region, 140410, Russia Received 22.10.2015, received in revised form 04.11.2015, accepted 10.12.2015 The article is devoted to the issues of the philological competence and the importance of developing it in the process of training Bachelors of Education (Major in Foreign Languages) at high school. <...> First of all, it studies various points of view on the terms “philology” and “philological competence”. <...> In addition, it presents the approaches to the main characteristics of the philological competence and singles out the required skills and abilities of future foreign language teachers. <...> As a result, it suggests the way to develop the philological competence using the interdisciplinary approach. <...> Keywords: philological competence, Bachelor of Education (Major in Foreign Languages), professional competence of a foreign language teacher, interdisciplinary approach. <...> These competences can be considered has been stated as universal ones (Komiakova, 2013, pp. 186187). <...> To understand the essence of the term “philological competence” of a foreign language teacher it is necessary to point out various defi nitions of the term “philology”. <...> In methodological dictionaries it is defi ned as a set of humanities, studying the culture of a nation, expressed in the language and in literature (Linguistic didactic encyclopedic dictionary, 2007, p. 367; New dictionary of methodological terms and notions (theory and practice of teaching foreign languages), 2009, pp. 337-338). <...> The Approaches to Philological Competence as an Integral Part of Professional Competence. to it is the defi nition given in the comprehensive dictionary of the Russian language where it is presented as a set of humanities, studying spiritual (mental) culture of a nation expressed in the language and in literature (linguistics, study of literature, study of criticism/study) (Comprehensive folklore, textual dictionary of the Russian language, 2007). <...> According to O.A. Akhmanova, philology is a general name of subjects studying language, literature and culture of the nation through literature and other cultural and historical works (Dictionary of linguistic terms, 2010, pp. 492493). <...> In Bloomsbury English Dictionary it is <...>