Сучасні тенденції розвитку іншомовної педагогічної освіти в Україні

Abstract

The article highlights current trends in the development of the system of foreign language teacher education in Ukraine based on the analysis of relevant legal documents including standards of foreign language teacher preparation, as well as the identifiable steps undertaken to reform the sphere of foreign language teaching. Foreign language education is unequivocally recognized as the priority of the country’s external policy aimed at its integration into the international community. Spurred by the impact of the globalization trends, the search for adequate ways and mechanisms of integrating the Ukrainian education into the international higher education platform has begun.The major transformations permeating the Ukrainian higher education system identified in the paper are the standardization movement, the implementation of the competence-based approach, the emphasis of the student-centeredness as opposed to reproductive instructional models. The inherent features of the modern teacher education paradigm in Ukraine are its multidisciplinary approach, continuity, diversification, autonomy, academic freedom, academic mobility and some others.The group of special innovations includes modernization of didactic approaches in the field of foreign language teacher education, diversification of practical language courses, expansion of the curricula of language teacher education programmers, in particular, related to methods of foreign language teaching, and, finally, the abandonment of methodological dogmatism for the sake of principled eclecticism in language teaching, embracing such approaches as communicative, humanistic, competence-based, cultural, constructivist, computer-assisted language learning etc.