Bozhko N. Preparation of a future foreign language teacher for the organization of pupils' thinking activity.

The object of the thesis is the process of future foreign language teachers' preparation; The subject of the thesis is pedagogical conditions of future foreign language teachers' preparation for the organization of pupils' thinking activity; The aim (purpose) of the investigation is to define and prove some conditions of the most effective impact of different types of teaching and educational activity on the preparation of future foreign language teachers for the organization of pupils' thinking activity; The methods of the investigation are: 1)theoretical (theoretical analysis of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical literature, of the material, based on the problem of the investigation, of theoretical modeling and systematic analysis and synthesis while defining the aim, the tasks and the hypothesis of the thesis); 2)empirical (observation, questionnaire, tests, interview, individual and group talks, pedagogical experiment); 3)statistical (the methods of math statistics and methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data, received after the investigation); The scientific innovation (novelty): pedagogical conditions of involving future foreign language teachers into different kinds of activity with the aim of performing their preparation for the organization of pupils' thinking activity at the lessons in foreign language were pointed out, theoretically confirmed and experimentally tested for the first time; the understanding of the notion "foreign language teacher's preparation" is elaborated; the criteria and levels of the evaluation of future foreign language teachers' preparation are worked out; the methods of the diagnostics of the level of future foreign language teachers' preparation for the organization of pupils' thinking activity is created and tested.