THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN THE TEACHER PERSONALITY AND THE CHOICE OF COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article attempts to elucidate how teachers’ personal characteristics influence their choice of communication strategies in foreign language teaching. The author of the article provides in-depth analysis of foreign and domestic investigations and the results of this investigation demonstrate that this relationship is quite evident with both positive and negative effects of teacher personality on foreign language learning process. Besides, the article focuses on the challenges teachers and students face when communicating in a foreign language. The core aspect of the article is that it describes various communication strategies that help overcome these difficulties, and emphasizes the importance of affective factors influencing learning effectiveness. Relying on the investigation findings and on the experience of using various communication strategies and psychological methods, practical recommendations for foreign language teachers are presented in this article.