EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE OF TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES: FINDINGS AND PROSPECTS FOR UKRAINE

Аннотация

The aim of the paper is to analyze the peculiarities of training of future foreign languages teachers of
some European countries and generalize the useful European experience, which can be recommended as prospects
for improving the training of future foreign languages teachers in Ukrainian higher educational establishments. The
study was conducted using methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparative analysis and predictive
methods.
The main focus of this study is on the analysis of the experience of training future teachers of foreign languages
in higher educational institutions in the following European countries: Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland, Italy,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Finland, Estonia. A comparative analysis of the system of foreign language education
in European countries allowed the authors to identify general and specific features of the training of future teachers
of foreign languages in European countries, as well as highlight the models in the structure of training of future
teachers of foreign languages: Bachelor-teacher, Bachelor-linguist, Master, which indicates the wide variability and
dynamism of the development of the training system of future teachers of foreign languages in Europe. The
generalization of the European experience in the training of future teachers of foreign languages gave the authors the
opportunity, to find out fundamentally important directions, to formulate the main recommendations as the prospects
for improving the training of future teachers of foreign languages at Ukrainian higher educational establishments at
the level of educational policy of Ukraine