TEACHING LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER

Abstract

The article studies the description of the linguodidactic potential of lexical means of expression of emotional intelligence in English. The objective of the study is to provide a systematic analysis and classification of the means of representing emotional intelligence at the lexical level and to develop exercises based on these means aimed at developing the communicative competence and emotional intelligence of future teachers. The article presents a classification of the means of representing emotional intelligence, which includes explicit and implicit lexical means, stimulus words, interjections and onomatopoeic vocabulary, vocabulary with figurative and metaphorical meanings, and vocabulary with subjective evaluation suffixes. The article presents tasks that ensure comprehensive development of communicative competence and emotional intelligence in future English teachers. The research results can be applied in the practice of teaching language disciplines at a pedagogical university. The article may be of interest to English teachers at educational institutions of all levels of training.