Multifunctional activity of the teacher of foreign languages, dynamic changes in the field of his professional training, the need for continuous improvement of professional competencies and personal determinants of future teachers of foreign languages, and also due to these factors the need for pedagogical universities in the implementation of scientifically developed methodology, that will ensure the formation of active professional individuality of the future specialist, will allow the future teacher of foreign languages to reach the peaks of development of their personality, led to the choice of the topic of the dissertation study "Formation of future foreign languages teachers’ readiness to professional-personal self-development".
The object of the study is future foreign teachers’ training. The thesis investigates the problem of forming the readiness of future teachers of foreign languages to professional-personal self-development in the pedagogical theory and practice of professional training of foreign languages’ teachers in Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom and in the United States. The theoretical bases of professional-personal self-development are substantiated and studied. The semantic meanings of the concept "professional-personal self-development", "readiness of future teachers of foreign languages to professional-personal self-development" are specified. Due to our study, the readiness of future teachers of foreign languages to professional-personal self-development is defined as a complex professionally-personal formation, integrating in its structure motivational-dispositional, informational-integrative, personal-regulating, reflexivity-correcting components, aimed to raise the level of professionalism and self-realization of the personality of future teachers of foreign languages.
The pedagogical conditions of formation of future foreign languages teachers’ readiness to professional-personal self-development (formation of motivation to professional-personal self-development through a complex of stimulating factors; the use of an integral resource of a foreign language for accomplishing professional-personal self-development; creating a smart environment of professional-personal self-development.) are determined and theoretically substantiated. The structural-functional model of forming the readiness of future teachers of foreign languages to professional-personal self-development is developed. The motivational-stimulating, cognitive, internal, reflexive criteria and relevant indicators of the readiness of future foreign languages’ teachers to professional-personal self-development are identified and characterized.
According to the determined criteria are defined and experimentally checked the low, medium and high levels of the formation of future foreign languages’ teachers’ readiness to professional-personal self-development. The recommended forms of organization of the educational process are practical classes, independent work, group work, trainings, workshops, individual and group consultations, round tables, disputes, conferences, independent work with the use of information resources, individual search work, visiting the open lessons of leading teachers.
The effectiveness of the use of the active methods, the method of projects, the methods of problem learning (discussions, modeling of problem situations, educational games), methods of independent and group extracurricular work (working out of literature in a foreign language, online work with interactive programs), method of cases, Portfolio method, a web-quest is experimentally confirmed. The integrated phased methodology of formation of future foreign languages’ teachers’ readiness to professional-personal self-development, that includes the predictive, design and practical stages, has been developed. A smart environment of professional-personal self-development is a web mix, that include the author's thematic blog, the electronic portfolio, a web quest, educational textbook (the text and the tasks in form of thematic cases contain hyperlinks to additional sources).
Key words: future teachers of foreign languages, readiness to professional-personal self-development, structural-functional model of forming the readiness, pedagogical conditions.
