FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ TRAINING FOR PEDAGOGICAL INTERACTION IN MULTIETHNIC UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a problem of foreign language teachers’ training for pedagogical interaction in multiethnic university environment that becomes urgent due to new requirements to professional and personal qualities of the educator. To solve the problem the author puts forward a model of foreign language teachers’ training for conducting pedagogical interaction in multiethnic university environment. The model appears to represent a structural and functional system that combines purposeful, methodological, content-based, procedural and evaluative units. A purposeful unit defines the goal and tasks of the training; a methodological unit describes scientific approaches and principles that are fundamental for achieving the goal; a content-based unit reflects the essence of the foreign language teachers’ training for conducting pedagogical interaction in multiethnic university environment; a procedural unit describes forms, methods and means leading to the goal; an evaluative unit represents criteria, indicators and levels of a quality being formed. The author concludes that the model of foreign language teachers’ training for conducting pedagogical interaction in multiethnic university environment being applied in practice leads to enhancing the education quality offered by Russian higher educational institutions.