Abstract
The article addresses the problem of development of the professional image of a foreign language teacher in Ukraine. The present study was contemplated to ascertain the attitude of university students in Ukraine towards the studied notion and reveal the level of its formation. The structure of the professional image of future foreign language teachers consist of several underlying constructs which have been described in the paper: cognitive, axiological and operational components. Results show that Ukrainian teachers-to-be held different perceptions to the notion of professional image of a foreign language teacher. The purpose of this survey is to provide suggestion of organizational, personal and pedagogical conditions to facilitate the development of professional image of future foreign language teachers in Ukrainian higher education institutions.
Highlights
Fundamental changes that happen at an unprecedented speed in the education system put the improvement of higher professional education, in particular in the aspect of ensuring high requirements of society to the teacher’s personality in the forefront of current educational practice
The purpose of this survey is to provide suggestion of organizational, personal and pedagogical conditions to facilitate the development of professional image of future foreign language teachers in Ukrainian higher education institutions
Knowledge about the professional image of a teacher of foreign languages, forms of its manifestation in the professional sphere, ways of management of professional image is of paramount importance and allows to optimize the program of self-development of a student's personality aimed at formation of professional image
Summary
Fundamental changes that happen at an unprecedented speed in the education system put the improvement of higher professional education, in particular in the aspect of ensuring high requirements of society to the teacher’s personality in the forefront of current educational practice. The research was carried out using a quantitative methodology, based on the authors’ experimental questionnaire “Teacher’s professional image”, filled in by 346 students – future teachers of foreign language, personal interviews and direct and indirect observations of faculty members as data collection tools. The research methodology is nonexperimental, as we did not explore the causes of the revealed levels of a foreign language teacher’s professional image and factors that impact on the process of its formation, but only made a comparative analysis of the specific perceptions of the studied phenomenon by the teachers-to-be and the levels of its formation; from this point of view, our research is a comparative study.
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