Professional activity and emotional burnout of university faculty (linguistics students opinion survey results)
The emotional burnout (EB) arises as the result of a complex of factors and the excessive workload, being among them, deserves special attention. Professional activity of university faculty is multicomponent in its nature, and, except for classroom work, includes courses development, textbooks preparation, getting ready for lectures and seminars, monitoring and control of student autonomous work during the out-ofclass time, developing assessment and test materials, conducting research and publication of scientific results, organizing educational events. According to the student opinion survey, EB adversely affects the efficiency of teachers' work and can lead to their social isolation. The main factor of EB is related to their competence: the necessity to effectively organize in- and out-of-classroom student work, control over assignment completion with the help of various modern methods and technologies, interaction with a large number of students and employing an individual approach to each of them. Communicative and organizational factors are also important. Students believe that the main means for preventing the faculty burnout is their further professional development: enhancing their qualification and improving pedagogical excellence