Discipline «Contemporary technologies of teaching foreign languages» in professional teachers’ training

The growing tendency of technologization at the levels of general and higher education, including pedagogical education, actualizes the need to include disciplines in the training of future teachers, allowing to train them for a critical and comprehensive understanding of the essence, features, existing classifications of teaching technologies for the subject (both digital and humanitarian); analysis of modern educational and methodological complexes of the general education system for the presence and quality of certain technologies; development and application of teaching technologies in future professional teaching activities. The novelty and significance of the study lies in substantiating the specifics and difficulties of designing and implementing the program of the optional discipline «Contemporary technologies of teaching foreign languages» in the main educational programs for the training of teachers of foreign languages at the bachelor's level (direction of training “Pedagogical education”, training profiles «Foreign language and Foreign language»). The author presents the possible content of this discipline (the main content blocks of the program), formulates the basic principles of its design and implementation, identifies the key forms of organization of training in the implementation of the designated discipline. The main research methods were: analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature in the problem field of research; questionnaire survey of both future and practicing teachers of foreign languages; generalization and analysis of personal experience in the development and implementation of this discipline in the process of pedagogical activity at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Tomsk State Pedagogical University: monitoring the educational activities of students.