AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article explores the issue of the axiological approach to examining the professional activity of a foreign language teacher. The study describes and examines the essential characteristics of the changes in the foreign language teaching process, which are driven by the educational policy’s focus on developing a value-oriented worldview. The research emphasizes the need to strengthen the axiological aspect in foreign language education, which implies a transformation of the professionally significant characteristics of the foreign language teacher. The author identifies the main components (cognitive, procedural, affective) of a foreign language teacher’s professional activity necessary for the successful implementation of an axiologically oriented approach to language teaching and describes their substantive descriptors, taking into account their binary focus – on the self and on others.