PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT PERSONAL QUALITIES OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER AS THE BASIS OF HIS PROFESSIONALISM

Abstract

In the article the main foreign language teacher’s professionally significant personal qualities are considered as one of the most significant parts of his or her professional competence. The article examines socio-economic and cultural state of modern Russian society, in which professionally significant personal qualities of a teacher, in particular a foreign language teacher, come to the fore in his or her professional competence structure. On the basis of the research literature analysis, personal qualities of a modern teacher who carries out professional activities within the framework of the discipline “Foreign Language” are studied. Their primary importance is proved from the point of view of effective training of students at the stage of secondary (full) general education.