Pedagogical Facilitation in the Context of Professional Training of Future Foreign Language Teachers
The article considers the phenomenon of pedagogical facilitation in the context of professional training of future foreign language teachers. Analysis of research has shown that the term “pedagogical facilitation” comes from the English word facilitate and means “easy, convenient”. Based on this, a facilitator is considered to be a person who helps to make the process of communication with other people simpler and easier. Despite the existing research on the terms “facilitation” and “pedagogical facilitation”, these terms need additional research in the context of professional training of future foreign language teachers due to the fact that in today's world learning foreign languages is one of the most important places in education. It was determined that a communicative approach that is leading in the study and teaching of a foreign language and requires the future professional to have facilitation skills. It was determined that effective facilitative pedagogical interaction involves the presence of the following stages in the work of teachers, including foreign language teachers: approval; adoption; trust. The article analyzes the experience of domestic and foreign scientists who defined the concepts of “social facilitation”, “psychological facilitation”, “pedagogical facilitation”.