CHANGING ROLE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHER IN A FEDERAL UNIVERSITY: MAIN CHALLENGES OF THE TIME
The article deals with the activities of a foreign languages teacher at a federal university. The authors dwell on the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages at present and consider the teacher’s model, focusing attention on characteristics of professional competences of a teacher of foreign languages, emphasizing his uniqueness as a representative of the foreign language culture and as a language personality with didactic and methodological knowledge. The article analyzes the main role of a teacher in the educational process of the University and stresses the need for mainstreaming a teacher-researcher in charge of the scientific search and involving students in it