Historical backgrounds of the development of foreign language education in Ukraine in the context of preperation of future coaches

Abstract

Modern tendencies of European integration and progressive development of the world community, recognition of a foreign language as a guarantor of the formation of human culture, expansion of intercultural interaction in the educational sphere, strengthening of the worldview, intellectual and communicative functions of a foreign language, review and accentuation of the sub- objective tasks of foreign language education to master the culture of another country through the language of its native speakers – all these have identified the urgent need to overcome methodology, content and technological support of foreign language education, theoretical reasoning of basic concepts and categories in this area. The solution of this problem poses special demands to the quality of pedagogical education, as it is the teacher of the humanitarian specialties who determines the effectiveness of the preparation of youth for intercultural communication in the educational field.
 One of the possible ways of solving this problem is critical over thinking and creative usage of the historical experience of developing foreign language education of future teachers of humanitarian specialties at pedagogical universities of Ukraine since the mid-XX till the beginning of the XXI century. The peculiarities and significance of this period in Ukraine are determined by the important transformation processes in the professional preparation of future teachers of humanitarian specialties and pedagogical education in general, as the European integration processes in education have intensified the reformation of foreign language education, the development of conceptually new approaches to its practical implementation.
 Historiographical analysis gives reasons to confirm that scientific and pedagogical sources have accumulated information on various aspects of the development of foreign language education for future teachers of humanitarian specialties at pedagogical universities of Ukraine in historical retrospective. However, the information which is provided in these studies does not systematically cover the dynamics, stages, and major trends of solving the problem of the development of foreign language education of future teachers of humanitarian specialties at pedagogical universities of Ukraine (mid-XX - early XXI century).