Axiological aspects of foreign language teachers’ preparation for primary foreign language education

Abstract

The article outlines axiological basis of professional training of English teachers, capable to develop communicative, cognitive and moral development of junior schoolchildren when they master a new language and facts from a different culture. The article refers both to the history of methodological research, in which the issues of the formation of professionally significant skills of a foreign language teacher were studied, and to the modern problems of the formation of the teacher’s personality and his readiness for pedagogical activity. The article examines linguistic values and substantiates a new goal of professional training of a future foreign language teacher for the primary stage of secondary school, taking into account the priority of his spiritual ability and recognition of professionalism as its fundamental characteristic. The authors associate the formation of professionalism with the disclosure of the personal potential of the future teacher, which is an integrative phenomenon, the components of which are the basis for determining the new content of teacher training as a person capable of realizing the educational and developmental potential of primary foreign language education.