Formation of soft skills of future foreign language teachers

Abstract

The article deals with the necessity of soft skills forming of future foreign language teachers. Soft skills are one of the most important competencies of professionals, as well as a person who wants to succeed in today’s world. The problem of developing soft skills is increasingly common in the teaching community. The article reveals that graduates of modern universities with socio-economic and political changes face more and more demands. They must have not only knowledge, but also skills necessary for their own development and effective functioning in general. Therefore, it is important to promote soft skills formation in the learning process. Soft skills develop universal and general cultural competencies of modern competitive specialists in society. Therefore, today many researchers are actively engaged in the formation problem and soft skills development in students. In the practice of teaching specialized disciplines to future specialists, there is a tendency to form and develop general and narrow professional competencies — hard skills. This phenomenon is partly explained by the lack of professional and pedagogical knowledge specialized universities’ teachers. Professional development programs for teachers in pedagogical areas will help to solve the identified problem.