PROJECT INTERNSHIP AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING SOFT SKILLS IN FUTURE TEACHERS

Abstract

The article examines the role and place of project internship in the formation and development of soft skills among future foreign language teachers. The authors emphasize the importance of soft skills in the professional development of teachers. As an example, the article describes a long-term multimedia educational ICT project implemented in the form of a startup. Within the framework of the proposed study, the authors use such methods as analysis and synthesis, empirical generalization of personal pedagogical experience, observation of activities of students during project internship with survey elements. Generalizing the experience of implementing projects of this kind allows identifying a number of technological problems. Analysis of the results obtained by researchers, their own practical teaching experience, as well as the results of communication with participants in the educational process, allowed the authors to come to the conclusion that it is necessary to do systematic work at universities to prepare lecturers to carry out pedagogical activities in the formation and development of soft skills among students.