Personality of a foreign language teacher through the prism of personality theory

Abstract

This article examines the role of professionally significant and common personality traits in the individual pedagogical communication style shaping, the necessity of selfeducation of those qualities as a prerequisite for the effective organization of communication with students. In the article there are examined the principles of efficiency increase of the individual style of pedagogical communication. With this purpose the basic factors are researched, which determine successful and unsuccessful style of pedagogical communication; there are examined the psychological and communicative barriers, which must be overcome if a teacher wants to get successful style of pedagogical communication. There are characterized the conditions that facilitate the formation of students’ reflective abilities in the process of their professional education: the development of motivational sphere of future teachers; mastering the techniques which help to control their own emotional state during the professional activities; the development of communicative and organizational skills; increase of students’ readiness for innovations and creativity; future teachers’ awareness of professional tasks, individual mental qualities; formation of students’ positive self-concept; providing opportunities for students’ self-expression in communication. It is proved that it is very important to promote the development of future teachers’ reflexive skills during the professional pedagogical educa-tion. In the article we determine the role of teacher’s reflection and describe the means and methods to develop this capacity. This helps to alert the teacher’s professional deformation, psychological problems in communication, to promote the growth of teacher’s identity and formation of positive self-concept. The conclusion is drawn that formation of internal motivation for professional self-improvement and self-acceptance of future teachers help greatly to overcome some difficulties in the process of communicative interaction with pupils.

Keywords

• individual style of communication
• professionally significant qualities
• individual typological features
• compensatory function.