THE PECULIARITIES OF THE FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' SOFT SKILLS FORMATION DURING THEIR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the future primary school teachers’ «soft skills» formation during their foreign language professional training at the second (Master’s) level of higher education.

Methodology. The theoretical methods (analysis, comparison, generalization and systematization of information); diagnostic methods (pedagogical observation, the survey of the applicants for the second (Master’s) level of higher education of the 013 Primary education specialty, a specially worked out set of the tasks); methods of processing the received data for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results of the diagnostic research) have been used in the study.

Scientific novelty. The «soft skills» which must be formed in the future primary school teachers during their foreign language professional training have been classified; the peculiarities of the applicants’ for the second (Master’s) level of higher education of the 013 Primary education specialty «soft skills» formation on the basis of a specially worked out set of the communicatively oriented tasks within the «Foreign language (for professional purposes)» discipline have been revealed.

Conclusions. The future primary school teachers’ «soft skills» formation during their foreign language professional training must be on the basis of a specially worked out set of the tasks; meet the needs of the New Ukrainian school; be based on the student-centered approach, that will give the applicants for higher education the opportunity to fully reveal their communication, management, strategic, personal effectiveness skills and skills of effective information management.