Principles of teaching foreign language and specifics of their implementation in the training of future primary school teachers

Abstract

In the article we highlight and analyse the principles of foreign language teaching in the training of future primary school teachers. The planning of the educational strategy for the foreign language training of future teachers should take into account important features, namely: the specifics of the formation of foreign language competence and the specifics of its application in professional activity. The connection between learning and life highlights the need to use methods that align educational activity with sociocultural realities, and the knowledge gained by students can be fully utilised in life or professional contexts. Based on an analysis of scientific literature, the following human-oriented principles of foreign language teaching have been identified: development of linguistic personality, person-oriented teaching, consideration of the student’s abilities, individual approach, and development of the student’s autonomy. Their implementation contributes to the optimisation of the educational process. In modern scientific and pedagogical discourse, a comprehensive model of foreign language training for future teachers with a focus on a pragmatic approach is proposed. The implementation of a competence-based approach ensures the creation of the necessary conditions for the formation of foreign language communicative competence in students. There is a noticeable increase in the intensity of language use in the information and communication space, which leads to changes in the requirements for the formation of general and special professional competences of students and the mastery of the results of learning foreign language disciplines. The formation of professionally-oriented foreign language competence in future primary school teachers is characterised by communicative, informative, educational-methodological and educational-worldview components. The implementation of these principles in the process of training future teachers contributes to the formation of foreign language competence in students.