PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS: TODAY’S GLOBAL REALITIES

Abstract

This paper addresses to common problems of training a generation of students with clip thinking, fluent in IT‑technologies and modern gadgets. This generation grew up surrounded by constantly improving digital technologies, accompanied by the media, which constantly provides the viewer with information mainly of entertaining or intimidating nature (talk shows, sitcoms, TV shows, contests, games, constantly interrupted by commercials, news, etc.). As a result, the brain is rebuilt, adapting to reality, and a new type of thinking arises – the socalled ‘Clip thinking’, which is characterized by fragmentation, non-linearity, emotionality, quick switching from one topic to another, illogicality. In accordance with this, the features of students’ thinking, over the years of rapid technological progress and the development of the media, have acquired new characteristics. Unlike the previous generation with digital thinking, which is characterized by rationality, ability to think algorithmically and multitasking, students with clip thinking need new approaches in teaching and preparing them for future professional activities. Given the above, it is necessary to create a new teaching technology that will contribute to the quality training of a new generation of future foreign language teachers.